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The Cardinal Newman Society, which keeps track of these things, has compiled a list of speakers at Catholic colleges who violate Catholic teachings: At least nine Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. have invited spring commencement speakers and/or honorary degree recipients whose public positions and actions are clearly at odds with fundamental Catholic teachings,…

The circumstances were extraordinary — and the decision, I’m sure, was not easy to make. But the result has sparked a growing controversy in Arizona, where even the bishop has now intervened. From the Arizona Republic: A Catholic nun and longtime administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix was reassigned in the…

From Ohio comes this story of a convicted killer’s final moments — which included praying the rosary with a bishop: [Michael] Beuke spent an emotional 24 hours at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility where Ohio’s death house is located ahead of his execution. Prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn said he cried frequently, played music on a…

He broke barriers nearly 50 years ago — and last weekend, he took home an honorary degree from the school where it happened: A legacy of sharing, and even a little daring, was celebrated at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College Saturday, as a Jewish rabbi who once made world news by teaching there returned for an honorary…
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