If it seems like the holiday season is starting earlier this year, there’s a good reason. It is. The earliest you can have Thanksgiving is November 21st, and this year, it’s on the 22nd. And, as a result, everybody got a jump on it. This year, Halloween decorations were up in the stores when they…

A high-profile member of the USCCB was running for a committee office this week — and lost. And now some are wondering if there was a message in that, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: This week, St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke lost an election for the chairmanship of the U.S. bishops’ canon law committee…

More and more, your keyboard is becoming a critical evangelization tool. Don’t believe it? Check out this pretty compelling bit of evidence from The Leaven, the diocesan newspaper of Kansas City, Kansas: When Jesus told his disciples to go out and preach the good news, he likely did not have a keyboard, computer screen and…

I get asked that question a lot. Below is the best answer I can provide. This has been making its way around the world on the web, and has caused quite a sensation here in Gotham, where New York magazine and the New York Daily News have been yucking it up about it. Even Drudge…

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