Some sad news out of France: the country’s leading cardinal, and a man once mentioned as a possible successor to Pope John Paul, has died: Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the retired Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris, died in the French capital Sunday, aged 80, the government said. He passed away in a medical clinic where he…

Of the many stories that have come out of the rubble of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, this one is one of the more inspiring: Father Bryan Lynch, associate pastor at St. Ambrose of Woodbury, a St. Paul suburb, was driving on Interstate 35W south in Minneapolis heading toward the Mississippi bridge about 6:20 p.m., 15…

Back in the 1947 – 60 years ago — newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst bought an estate in Beverly Hills for the then-astounding sum of 120-thousand dollars. Hearst only lived there four years before he died. A variety of other people have owned it since then, and it acquired a colorful history. Well, last month,…

At a time when some Protestants are not all that thrilled with the letter from Pope Benedict asserting Catholic primacy, some Catholics and Lutherans are trying to find some common ground: Milwaukee’s Catholic auxiliary bishop is about to find himself in what some might assume would be an uncomfortable position – addressing more than 1,000…

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