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BANGKOK – An ailing priest who is one of Vietnam’s most well-known democracy activists has been returned to prison, more than a year after he was sent home to seek treatment for a brain tumor, a prison official said.

UPDATE, July 28: Catholic News Service reports that Archbishop Pietro Sambi passed away July 27, apparently from complications from lung surgery three weeks ago. Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the papal nuncio to the United States, has been placed on assisted ventilation after “delicate lung surgery” according to Catholic News Service. The Baltimore Sun reported today that […]

This is just too cool not to share. Father Austin Murphy, director of vocations for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, delivered this homily to young people attending the High School Leadership Institute. Few priests can weave messages of Harry Potter and Jesus so effortlessly.

This week’s Catholic Review will feature a special report on how the practice of the faith has developed in Poland since the collapse of Communism.  You can read the story online here. Below are some video reports I put together while I was in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary in late May and early […]

Nothing says football in Baltimore more than Johnny Unitas or the Turkey Bowl. Now, at least for one year, the two will be linked.

Q. In many churches I have noticed that the Book of the Gospels is carried in procession and placed on the altar. Is this something new and who should do it? And what do we say and do after the Gospel reading is introduced?

So starting tonight, “it all ends here.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 arrives in theaters at midnight. When I first started this blog, I had a bunch of Harry content, including an interview with author Nancy Brown about the series and Catholicism. It’s amazing how quickly those nine months went by and […]