Like a lot of you out there, I was taught by nuns. But I never had one do something like this: Sister Kathy Avery won’t put up with swearing on the playground at her school, and she’s not above repeating the offending language to make sure everyone understands which words she won’t tolerate. The principal…

Does Rudy Giuliani have a religion problem? This piece from Salon seems to say: yes. And it’s not an insignificant one: Late last spring, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence opened his mail to find an invitation to a local fundraising event for Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani. Tobin made…

You’d think, after following that star from the East, the wise men would want to rest a while. But no. The journey of the magi isn’t over. They’re visiting Arizona this week, where fragments of the relics of the three wise men will be in Tucson: The Catholic relics tour, titled “Come Let Us Adore…

Conveniently — and meaningfully — the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts ordained new deacons yesterday, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception: Springfield Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell ordained six men as permanent deacons of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield during a ceremony yesterday St. Michael’s Cathedral. Ordained were Gary Doane of the Bondsville section…

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