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NEW YORK – The Nassau County Department of Health on New York’s Long Island is offering immune globulin or hepatitis A vaccine to parishioners at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Massapequa Park who might have been exposed to hepatitis A when receiving Communion at two Christmas Day Masses.

Photo by Owen Sweeney III Essex’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School had its first football team  last fall. The program was assembled quickly, but was well-coached by Robb Johnson. Johnson […]

I received a really nice item from Loyola Blakefield’s Robert Robinson. As students eyed clocks  Dec. 22 to countdown to their Christmas vacation,  members of the school’s swim team completed a […]

A Wisconsin newspaper is reporting that the “God Squad” is no more: The Reporter Photo by Patrick Flood Father Luke Strand has sold his black Volkswagen Beetle that landed him […]

Cynthia Bowers of CBS’s ‘Sunday Morning’ has an inspiring piece on Roger Ebert, the famed film critic who lost his voice to cancer three years ago.  A snip: CBS Photo He’s […]

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy […]

A Jesuit priest is turning the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s bestselling “The Gift of Peace” into a movie. Chicago Catholic News has the story: After sex abuse allegations were recanted […]

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog for CatholicReview.org did in the last two months of 2010, when it was formed. Thanks for your readership. Here’s […]

Helen Nale, right, enjoys conversation with her daughter, Helen Valley. Nale believes she caught a glimpse of heaven after a near-death experience. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III) Everyone has seen stories on […]

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The Jan. 6 issue of The Catholic Review will feature a vocations story about an enrollment boom at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitburg. The nation’s second-oldest Catholic seminary is […]

Catholic universities are not alone in their struggle to balance religious identity and academic freedom. The Dallas Morning News explores how Baylor University – the largest Baptist university in the […]