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Collared in Wilmington

Some deacons are getting collared in the Wilmington Diocese. Wilmington Bishop W. Francis Malooly (former auxiliary bishop of Baltimore) has given the greenlight for permanent deacons of Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore to wear Roman collars in certain situations. Gary Morton has the scoop in the Jan. 13 issue of The Dialog. The story points out […]

Local Economist Presents Findings of Analysis of Economic Benefits of Catholic Schools to Graduates, Community

Noted Baltimore economist, Anirban Basu, will present findings from his 2010 study of the economic benefits provided by Catholic Schools in the Baltimore Archdiocese to their graduates and the greater community, at a breakfast meeting hosted by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien on Thursday, January 13 at 7:45 a.m. at the Center Club in Downtown Baltimore. […]

Remembering the real Matthew Snyder

Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder It’s a sad reality that Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder has become linked to the Westboro Baptist Church. The 20-year-old Marine was killed nearly five years ago when his Humvee overturned in Iraq. During his funeral, Westboro protesters held anti-gay and anti-Catholic signs outside St. John in Westminster – inexplicably insisting that Snyder’s death was […]

Eye-opening enrollment trends signal need for BOAST

The Maryland Catholic Conference is gearing up once again to make a major push for passage of a business tax credit known as BOAST (Building Opportunities for All Students and Teachers). Long a top priority of the legislative lobbying arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, BOAST would give businesses a 75 percent state income-tax credit […]

Romanian witches fight new taxes

Don’t mess with witches. They’re fighting back against new taxes in Romania: Everyone curses the taxman, but Romanian witches, angry about having to pay up for the first time, hurled poisonous mandrake into the Danube River on Thursday to cast spells on the president and government. In the past, the less mainstream professions of witch, astrologer […]

The Doable Dreams

The Catholic Review Happy New Year, dear readers! As we begin 2011, I thought it useful to use this year’s inaugural column to look back at the challenges we faced together in 2010 and to look ahead to those we will face in 2011. Last year, it was necessary for me and my brother bishops […]

Holy Communion host dispenser?

  Ken Maldonado for The Wall Street Journal I’m all for caution, but this just makes me cringe.  At St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in Clark, N.J., parishioners no longer handle the communion wafers that they once transferred from one bowl to another at the start of Mass.  Instead, parishioners use a very untraditional looking […]

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