BELFAST, Northern Ireland – The bishop of Belfast appealed for Catholic and Protestant residents to prove to the world they can live together in peace after fresh sectarian violence flared during the region’s contentious Protestant marching season.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland – The bishop of Belfast appealed for Catholic and Protestant residents to prove to the world they can live together in peace after fresh sectarian violence flared during the region’s contentious Protestant marching season.
In the wake of a failed effort to block gay marriage from becoming law in the Empire State, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan is raising concerns about what might be on the horizon. Check out what he wrote in a recent blog: Archbishop Timothy Dolan Veterans my age and over can remember sixty years ago […]
I’m a little wistful today, as I watch media coverage of the final launch of the space program. As a college journalist, I covered the very first shuttle launch, STS-1, April 12, 1981. STS-1, Columbia, clears the tower at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, April 12, 1981. Photo © 1981 Christopher Gunty I had followed […]
On Sept. 17, 2002, I ignored the request that media not attend the funeral of John Unitas, tucked a note pad into my blazer and entered a pew in the back of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. I’m not sure if it was during a reading or one of the many spoken tributes to the great Baltimore […]
Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco was married a few weeks ago to his high school sweetheart, Dana. Turns out it was at New Jersey’s Church of the Holy Saviour. It also looks like Ozzie Newsome should sign Dana to solve some center-QB exchange issues. Check out these photos from his wedding photographer!
The Catholic Review The following is printed with the permission of Karen Terry, Professor and Associate Provost of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and principal investigator and co-author of the Causes and Context report on clergy sexual abuse, at the request of Archbishop O’Brien, whose column will appear occasionally during the summer months. […]
VATICAN CITY – The ordinations of 20 new priests for the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X are “illegitimate, period,” said the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi.

Father Richard B. Hilgartner’s jaw dropped the first time he read bits of a draft of the new English translation of the Roman Missal – the book of liturgical prayers that is scheduled to be introduced in parishes Nov. 27.
MEXICO CITY – A Catholic priest died of his injuries July 2, shortly after being caught in the crossfire of a shootout between drug cartel gunmen and the military in the border city of Matamoros.
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Hollywood doesn’t think much of the Millennial Generation. Well, it’s not necessarily all of Hollywood, just some screenwriters who put words in the mouths of actors. Still, it’s got me thinking especially after seeing Transformers: Dark of the Moon during July 4 weekend. I headed out to the theater to watch robots demolish one another […]
The AP has an exclusive on a woman who believes she was healed through the intercession of Pope Pius XII. Could it be the miracle that leads to the beatification of the World War II-era pope? One American papal biographer thinks so. Blessed Pius XII? Maria Esposito was ready to give up. Wasted away at […]
