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Days after its retired bishop died, another American diocese has gone Chapter 11:  The Catholic diocese [of Wilmington] Delaware has filed for US bankruptcy protection on the eve of a civil trial involving high-profile sex abuse. The move automatically delays the case, the seventh of its kind in the US since a scandal in Boston…

The Archbishop of New York bumps into one of his flock.  Would you like fries with that?  H/T to Mayor McCheese, a.k.a. Rocco.  

This is what our media-besotted culture has come to: The episode that transfixed the nation last week — a spaceshiplike balloon floating through the Colorado skies with a 6-year-old boy named Falcon believed to be inside — was declared a hoax by the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday. “It has been determined that this…

That’s what the “T” of the cross really means, doesn’t it? Check out this priceless Stephen Colbert take-down of Justice Antonin Scalia. And a grateful h/t to my new blog neighbor Michelle McGinty. (For those who are new to my Colbertmania, check out this favorite picture of mine.)

For the answer, check out  this unusual art project: photographing ordinary people who happen to bear the names of presidents. 

“The faithful must be renewed, and those who have fallen away need to be invited back to the Church. We need to spread the kingdom of God to those without hope. Amid all of our prosperity, so many people are living on the edge of quiet desperation, and despite our modern successes, the Lord says…

I can’t.  It’s in Spain.  The AP report: A huge crowd rallied in Madrid Saturday against a bill to ease restrictions on abortion — a vivid and emotional show of how the issue remains sensitive two decades after abortion was legalized in this traditionally Roman Catholic country. The crowd of at least tens of thousands…

Anyone who lives and works around Brooklyn knows Bishop Ford High School, right off the Prospect Expressway. It’s just a block from my office. And I imagine a lot of Catholics who live in the diocese know the story of Bishop Francis Xavier Ford: a Brooklyn priest who was the very first seminarian accepted into…

We were lucky to have Tom Peterson stop by our studios last week for a sit-down.  He’s the mastermind behind the powerful (and incredibly effective) “Catholics Come Home” ads that have brought an estimated 100,000 Catholics back to the Church. How did the project start?  And what does he hope to achieve?  Some answers right…

Sorry, but I just got a big kick out of this. If you have a video camera on your laptop, and you’re bored, what else are you gonna do but create your very own music video? Enjoy.
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