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Bishop Doran of Rockford undergoes surgery for lung cancer: Catholic priests across the Rockford area break some hard news to their parishioners during Saturday evening mass, telling them Bishop Thomas Doran has been diagnosed with lung cancer. …. the Bishop had several tumors removed from his lungs and is now recovering at the Mayo Clinic…

Who’s rejoicing? The news photogs assigned to the Sunday Angelus. Finally, they’ve got a slightly different setting in which to frame their subject: Photo credit. And his message – truly pastoral, realistic and faith-full: Today there were many children in the crowd of 40,000 people who took part in the recital of the Angelus in…

In case you missed it a couple of weeks ago – Dorothy Day’s Advent reflections, penned in 1966 for Ave Maria magazine. From week 3: on chastity. HOW PRESUMPTUOUS it is to try to treat of such a subject in a short article, when great books (like Dietrich von Hildebrand’s In Defense of Purity )have…

Thoughts from Michael: We may be overly familiar with this Christmas story to notice what it might be telling us. What exactly is a sign? It is not an end in and of itself but rather points to a greater reality. What is the sign the shepherds are told they will witness? They are told…
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