Down at Louisiana State University, the student paper is looking into Lent — and what some of the students are doing for the season: Thomas Kajor is more productive these days. Since Ash Wednesday, Kajor, mechanical engineering sophomore, hasn’t been on Facebook for more than 15 minutes a day — which he attributes to his…

As has been widely reported, Pope Benedict penned a letter to the world’s bishops about the Williamson boondoggle — and expressed regret for how it was handled. You can read the entire text here. A snip: One mishap for me unforeseeable, was the fact that the Williamson case has superimposed itself on the remission of…

“Devastating” is just one of the words used to describe a new bill working its way through the New York State Legislature. It has set off alarm bells among the Empire State’s Catholics — and many fear it could even lead to some dioceses (like my own) having to declare bankruptcy. The New York Times…

Well, who’da thunk? The New York Times has just hired a new columnist that fits that description. And he’s under 30. Take a look: The New York Times has hired Ross G. Douthat, a 29-year-old conservative writer and editor at The Atlantic, as an Op-Ed columnist, nearly two months after ending the yearlong run of…

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