From Baltimore, there’s first official word of the pope’s trip to the States next spring — just in time for the Washington cherry blossoms, it turns out: Pope Benedict XVI will visit the U.S. in April, according to Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican’s representative to the U.S., who made the announcement to the nation’s Roman…

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To paraphrase Britney Spears: oops, they did it again. Two women took part in what was billed as an ordination rite in St. Louis. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: To the Roman Catholic Church, the ceremony was not an ordination. In fact, it wasn’t even Roman Catholic. But to two women and the approximately 600…

Yes, that’s Rob Petrie there in the picture, standing between a priest and a friar. He was honored recently for lifetime achievement by the Catholics in Media Associates. The Los Angeles paper, The Tidings, has the scoop: Comedy icon Dick Van Dyke and the “Ugly Betty” television series were among those receiving honors at the…

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