Last week New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd decried the “gall” of Archbishop Timothy Dolan for opposing gay marriage in the state. This week she describes his opposition as “relatively muted.” This seems like a contradiction, […]
Today is the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul – the feast day of the two great apostles and the patronal feast of the Holy See. Today also marks the 60th anniversary of Pope Benedict […]
With a tap on his iPad and a tweet from the Vatican’s Twitter account, Pope Benedict XVI officially launched news.va, a new multimedia website aggregating content from the Holy See’s various news outlets. The Vatican’s […]
John Allen reports in the National Catholic Reporter that “Cardinal José da Cruz Policarpo of Lisbon, Portugal, a veteran European prelate at one point considered a contender for the papacy, reportedly has said there’s ‘no fundamental […]
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune has an interesting article on a lawsuit filed against the Diocese of Venice, Florida – interesting for what it doesn’t report as much as for what it does. The NCReporter picked up […]
President Obama is inching toward formal support for gay marriage. As this New York Times story notes, his views are “evolving.” The story suggests that his nominal opposition to it was always political, not philosophical, and that he is […]
On our homepage this week you’ll find Jeff Ziegler’s report on “The State of Catholic Schools in the US,” from our June 2011 issue. In his article, Ziegler outlines in detail the reality already known […]
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