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This one is in Connecticut: Pope Benedict XVI has elevated St. John the Evangelist Church in downtown Stamford in the Bridgeport Diocese to the status of minor basilica. The designation was announced Oct. 17.  Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport said in a statement he was grateful to the pope “for this great blessing on…

An Irish bishop is throwing cold water on those who are anticipating another Marian apparition in his country: A Catholic archbishop in the west of Ireland has told pilgrims to Knock they should not look for apparitions at its shrine to the Virgin Mary. Earlier this month, about 5,000 people gathered at the shrine after…

Actually, it’s more of a footnote. This is regarding my post last week about Sr. Donna Quinn.  The canon lawyer Dr. Edward Peters is offering his own thoughts on the matter at his blog. There are a couple “canonical options” that can be pursued.  Visit his blog for details. 

…Dolan’s got himself a blog.   H/T Rocco, of course.

But this is awfully impressive.     

This sounds like one busy woman: A philanthropic mother of ten and grandmother of 28 will be honored for her work at the upcoming Tenth Annual Awards for Outstanding Catholic Leadership. The Catholic Leadership Institute (CLI) will present the award to Barbara Henkels on Nov. 13 in Drexel Hill, Penn.  CLI reports that Mrs. Henkels,…

How should we behave in cyberspace? Eric Sammons has some very good suggestions.   They should be printed and taped to every computer workspace…  

Because I had to look up that last word in the headline to find out what it means. Evidently, it pops up in the proposed new translation of the Roman missal. And one bishop used a lecture last week to speak up about what he thinks is wrong with the new translation: Bishop Donald W.…

“Who cares? Soon I’ll be in a wooden box in front of the altar. What matters is the bigger picture. God matters, the truth matters. We as individuals don’t matter. We think we matter but we don’t.”   — The Anglican Bishop of Fulham, the Right Rev. John Broadhurst,  on giving up his title of…

Betty seethed. Don cried. Roger resisted. And Joan’s hapless husband Greg decided to join the army so he could be a surgeon. Would he have to go overseas? “Maybe West Germany, or maybe Vietnam, if that’s still going on,” he said, almost as an afterthought.  And then there was the final line: as the Drapers…
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