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In a tradition that seems to be spreading, thousands of Vietnamese gathered this weekend in California to celebrate and commemorate the martyrs who were canonized nearly 20 years ago. The Los Angeles Times takes note: Several thousand Vietnamese American Roman Catholics turned an Irvine arena into a makeshift church Sunday for a service commemorating the…

One of America’s most enduring TV personalities has coughed up a nice donation for his alma mater. Catholic News Service reports: Television personality Regis Philbin recently demonstrated that the education he received at a Catholic high school in the Bronx served him well. He won $175,000 on the Fox TV program “Are You Smarter Than…

Of all the write-ups about the consistory this past weekend, this one by NCR’s John Allen may be the sweetest and most sincere, as he sums up the new cardinal, John Foley. One snip: Each year the North American College in Rome bestows an award upon an American churchman during its annual Rector’s Dinner, and…

It seems barely a week goes by without another story or two about women being “ordained” as Catholic priests. Now a woman, and a nun at that, has published a book on women and ordination. And Sister Sara Butler isn’t necessarily saying what others in the sisterhood of feminism would like to hear. She was…
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