Pope renews call for global financial authority...
Tip-Off Thursday...
At noon today, the ball goes up on another year of March Madness... by then, however, today's fortnightly meeting of the Congregation for Bishops will already have made it into the books. Lest anyone missed it the first time, the chancery pool: On a side-note, the NCAA champ might indeed get a trophy and bragging rights...
Myths About St. Patrick...
There are a lot of myths about the life of St. Patrick. One of them is that he was Protestant. Or at least that he wasn't Catholic but was instead, I guess, a kind of proto-Protestant. This kind of thinking is found in some Evangelical circles, where some of those of Irish descent have a desire to claim St...
"It always begins with a whisper in the hallway..."
And who knows better about whispers than Rocco Palmo? He stopped by the offices of "Currents" recently and was interviewed for a segment that we call "I WITNESS." Among other things, he talked about why he does what he does. Take a look...
Shared by Kevin Weigel At a recent international symposium, I offered closing remarks on what the Church might do to combat aggressive secularism in Europe. As the same prescriptions apply in the United States, let me share them with an American audience...
Gay adoption: a setback for Labour in its vicious war against the Churches...
U.S. health reform debate... in St. Peter's Square...
Pope's Letter to Ireland to be Signed Friday and "Sent Immediately"...
Why the Senate bill is anti-life, in 150 words...
St. Patrick's Breast-Plate: the powerful prayer of a powerful man...
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Vatican journalist names members of Medjugorje commission...
What do You Think of Catholic Preaching?
It's Official: Vatican confirms Medjugorje commission...
Give Up Yer Aul Sins - Story of Saint Patrick...
Bracketology 2010: Magisterial Fidelity Edition...
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St. Patrick didn't drive errors out of journalism...
AP rehashes old news to help Obamacare...
How to Pilot the Church in the Storm. A Lesson...
Benedict XVI has taught it to the faithful in a general audience, against those who call for a new beginning for Christianity, without hierarchy or dogmas. The secret of good governance, he said, is "above all to think and to pray."
Archbishop Naumann Urges Calls to Congress AND Sister Carol Keehan...
Kansas City, Kansas Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann is urging his flock to contact key members of Congress this week asking them to vote ‘no' on the pro-abortion Senate Health Care Reform bill. In his weekly column, he also asks Catholics to "contact Sister Carol Keehan and the Catholic Health Association expressing to them your disappointment in their willingness to accept.
No dispensation for this Friday (St. Joseph) is needed...
That the general law of abstinence from meat on Fridays (c. 1251) does not bind on "solemnities" (like the Solemnity of St. Joseph, per c. 1246.1 and the Gen. Norms for the Lit. Year and Calendar) is so obvious that few commentaries bother to say "If the Solemnity of St. Joseph falls on a Friday, even in Lent...
Will Ratzinger's past trump Benedict's present?
A Saint Patrick's Day message from Ireland: Thank you, America...
The Practical Power of Penitence...
More from the bishops on health care...
Munich case: facts do not support link to Pope...
