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Sally Quinn, famous non-Catholic communicant, has taken pen in hand to explain herself, after all the controversy surrounding her reception of the sacrament at Tim Russert’s funeral. She seems chastened by the experience: In a thoughtful and gently remonstrative piece in America magazine, the national Catholic Weekly, James Martin, S.J. wrote: “So Miss Quinn is…

Not much has been written about the big event that followed by several days the death of Tim Russert: the lecture for the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, which the NBC News star was scheduled to give. His last-minute replacement was another NBC News star, and Catholic — a graduate of Catholic University, in fact —…

That’s the question explored in this fascinating piece from Time magazine, which indicates the Vatican is already heavily involved, and a mass migration across the Tiber may be in the works: For an ordained clergyman to depart his cradle faith is a lonely endeavor, done individually. But that is probably not how things will roll…

Devotees of Thomas Merton — you know who you are — will remember that Catherine Doherty and Madonna House in Harlem figured prominently in The Seven Storey Mountain. Merton spent many weeks there before leaving New York for Gethsemani. And the rest is history. Catherine Doherty and Madonna House are again in the news (this…
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