If you aren’t already sitting down, I suggest you pull up a chair for this bit of news: An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour.…

As you might expect, there’s a lot of attention now being focused on Joe Biden’s religion. You can get a good sampling of ideas below: David Gibson has his thoughts over at his Pontifications blog. He points out the interesting fact that his pro-choice rating from NARAL is so low, they chose not to endorse…

Remember the astonishing (and later debunked) story of The Pact? The teenage girls of Gloucester, Massachusetts who pledged together to get pregnant and have babies? The high school principal who first spoke to the media about that has a new job — with the Catholic Church: Four days after retiring as a public school administrator,…

A Michigan paper this weekend offered this very informative piece about the deacons of Detroit: More than two decades ago, John Connors heard God’s voice calling. “There was a little voice inside that said, ‘I have something more for you,'” he said. Connors, already an active Catholic, found that something when he entered training to…

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