Catholics across the country celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Saturday Downtown DC saw traffic interrupted for a couple of hours as a procession marched twenty blocks to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Here in suburban Maryland the fireworks at the nearby church l

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In our Culture section we re very lucky to have as one of our newest film reviewers John McCarthy the editor of Cineman Syndicate and the media correspondent for Catholic Digest He also reviews films for Catholic News Service and Boxoffice Magazine nbsp He joins our longtime reviewer Richard A

Cambridge MA As you know President Obama gave his Nobel Prize speech the other day in Oslo It is a fine and thoughtful speech well worth our meditation so be sure to read it It should make us proud that we have this very intelligent and insightful man as our president I worry though that h

Talking about The Holy Family way back in October with American Catholic Radio in Cincinnati nbsp This was before recording an audio book which explains the--ahem--casual wear nbsp

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