To the delight of about half the human race, Paul Potts won that TV competition in Britain over the weekend. He now gets to sing for the Queen. Who, undoubtedly, has already watched his original performance again and again on YouTube (if not via The Deacon’s Bench.) Break out your hankies. You can catch his…

The man who is pegged to soon head the USCCB is coming under increasing fire for his handling of sex abuse cases in Chicago — and a just-published piece of correspondence is adding ammunition: Cardinal Francis George and one of his top bishops are stirring up controversy because of statements they recently made criticizing lawsuits…

The bishops meeting in Baltimore wasted no time getting down to work. Catholic News Service reports on one significant document already in the mix: a draft statement on the war in Iraq: Citing an alarming political and partisan stalemate in Washington, a draft statement discussed by the U.S. bishops Nov. 12 again laid out a…

From Baltimore, there’s first official word of the pope’s trip to the States next spring — just in time for the Washington cherry blossoms, it turns out: Pope Benedict XVI will visit the U.S. in April, according to Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican’s representative to the U.S., who made the announcement to the nation’s Roman…

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