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Late yesterday, the U.S. bishops released their weekly smackdown of a prominent American Catholic pol. And Washington’s Archbishop Wuerl added his own voice, in a letter to his priests: Our Catholic faith proclaims what is already written in our human hearts and recognized in our conscience – to kill innocent human life is wrong. The…

A little-known congressional race is starting to attract some attention, with some charging that anti-Catholicism is rearing its ugly head. Check out the Washington Post’s coverage: Democrats seeking to take over a Republican-held congressional seat in Northern Virginia are hammering GOP candidate Keith S. Fimian for his ties to a conservative Catholic organization, but Fimian…

One of my dreams is to one day take a pilgrimage in the Footsteps of St. Paul — visiting places like Corinth, sloshing around in a small boat on the Mediterranean, imagining what it must have been like to be an apostle to the Gentiles. It seems a lot of other people harbor that same…

Our brothers and sisters on the eastern side of The Pond just got a new curate at one of their churches. A full report on Rev. Skye Denno, from The Daily Mail: Some days she strides up to church wearing hot pants and biker boots. Or she might opt for dominatrix-style red leather high heels…

H/T to American Papist.

This may be the very definition of “pro-active.” Faced with the inconvenient truth that their churches would probably be closing, two parishes in Massachusetts voted in 2006 to consolidate. They did this on their own, without any pressure from the diocese. And now they are getting ready to break ground for their new church. As…

That was Samuel F.B. Morse’s first message, sent by telegraph in 1844. Imagine what he’d think of this little miracle of technology: Anyone curious to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes can now do it without leaving your desk. Drop by the Lourdes website and you can see real-time webcams of the famous grotto. H/T to…

Longtime readers may remember that last year I posted the inspiring story of a popular Christian singer named Danielle Rose, who was leaving a thriving music career to become a nun. Well, nearly a year later, we have an update, courtesy The Anchoress. There’s word that she has just been accepted into the notiviate: Today…

All you Sarah Palin groupies out there — those who love her and those who don’t — should flock over to Newsweek. The good people at Factcheck.org have just done a little fact-checking on the GOP vice presidential candidate, separating fact from fiction and busting a few common myths that have been ricocheting around the…

I stumbled across this essay this morning and thought: “Well here’s something you don’t see every day.” It’s about how a Steubenville pro-life EWTN-watching, daily-mass-attending young Catholic came to support Barack Obama: I started my freshman year at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, when I was barely 17, skipping my senior year of high school…
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