Yes Advent nbsp I wanted to be the first to say that word on our blog at least this year nbsp You may already know Fr Robert Barron professor of systematic nbsp theology at Mundelein Seminary in Chicago popular speaker and author of many books my favorite is The Strangest Way nbsp S

Yesterday the Vatican appointed a new auxiliary for Washington D C forty-five year old Bishop-elect Barry Knestout This is a big feather in the cap of D C rsquo s Archbishop Donald Wuerl Getting such a young auxiliary through Rome rsquo s sometimes arcane appointment process is not easy Wuerl

Spooky I suggest in this blog that the Archbishop of Canterbury take bishops to Lourdes -- and then he does Then a few weeks ago I come up with something called CathPod only to learn now that nbsp about that time an application called iBreviary was being launched Report in Italian here nbsp

CCHD the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has been under attack lately--unfairly nbsp David Gibson nbsp sets the record straight in an online piece for America here Gibson nbsp In nbsp a denunciation that America blogger Austen Ivereigh declared ldquo manifestly unjust rdquo Fat

On Sunday last I had a conversation with a devout Catholic woman 16 years of Catholic schooling niece of a revered deceased Jesuit of the California province nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital communion minister at her parish who was hopping mad at the California bishops for funding a

This surprising story reported by nbsp AP just came across our desk nbsp nbsp A snip The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador opposes reopening the prosecution of Salvadoran officials in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests the cleric said Sunday nbsp Human rights activists have pu