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“The Gospel – the Good News – is not just about words – a message given by a prophet to which we politely listen and either accept or reject. It is about what really happens in life, about God entering that place, and transforming it. That “place” is this life of brokenness, loss, sin, sorrow…

“Frankly, federal funding of embryonic stem cell research can bring on embryo harvesting, perhaps even human cloning that occurs. We don’t want that…. And certainly that is something that we ought to be talking about, but let’s take care of business first. People are out of jobs.” — Rep. Eric Cantor, (R-Va.) on CNN yesterday.He…

America may still be one of the most religious countries in the world — but there’s been a discernible shift in belief, and it’s worrisome. From the AP: A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians…

A couple weeks ago, I posted on a bold proposal by my diocese to turn some Catholic schools into charter schools. How has that worked in other places? The New York Times reports: On his first day of eighth grade at the former Holy Name Roman Catholic school last fall, Jeffrey Stone bowed his head,…

From our Sports Desk comes this tidbit, from the enterprising investigative journalists who run Page Six of the New York Post. It’s about Joe DiMaggio and the Catholic Church, and it ran on March 8, the 10-year anniversary of Joltin’ Joe’s departure for the Great Dugout In The Sky: “Few people knew how devout a…

“It’s no wonder that the pro-life movement takes three steps forward and two steps back, over and over again. Whoever stumbles gets thrown out of the movement and assigned to the outer darkness. Why would anyone of sound mind want to serve under the shadow of a one-strike policy? Sen. Brownback has been a leader…

The Archdiocese of New York is kicking off Lent with a big push for an oft-neglected sacrament, reconciliation. Many churches offered it round-the-clock this weekend. And the New York Times dropped in to see what was going on: Around midnight Friday, the Rev. Gilbert Luis R. Centina III appeared outside his church in East Harlem,…

As noted last week, conservative firebrand and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will be joining the Church soon, and now the American Papist has more details: Mr. Gingrich has regularly been seen attending Mass with his wife at the National Shrine here in Washington DC (including once by yours truly). He’ll be entering the Church…

A new video from Priests for Life.

In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s the President of CBS News was a colorful and very gifted man by the name of Richard Salant. By the time I’d arrived at CBS in the early ‘80s, he was long gone, but his leadership was legendary. And someone once shared with me a favorite Salant quote.…
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