America may still be one of the most religious countries in the world — but there’s been a discernible shift in belief, and it’s worrisome. From the AP: A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians…

A couple weeks ago, I posted on a bold proposal by my diocese to turn some Catholic schools into charter schools. How has that worked in other places? The New York Times reports: On his first day of eighth grade at the former Holy Name Roman Catholic school last fall, Jeffrey Stone bowed his head,…

From our Sports Desk comes this tidbit, from the enterprising investigative journalists who run Page Six of the New York Post. It’s about Joe DiMaggio and the Catholic Church, and it ran on March 8, the 10-year anniversary of Joltin’ Joe’s departure for the Great Dugout In The Sky: “Few people knew how devout a…

“It’s no wonder that the pro-life movement takes three steps forward and two steps back, over and over again. Whoever stumbles gets thrown out of the movement and assigned to the outer darkness. Why would anyone of sound mind want to serve under the shadow of a one-strike policy? Sen. Brownback has been a leader…

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