The Catholic Campaign for Human Development has gotten a lot of criticism of late (including, most prominently, from EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo). Now the bishop who oversees it is defending the organization: The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ subcommittee which oversees the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has defended the program against what he called…

Sound catchy? A group of atheists thinks so, and gave that phrase a prize: Blasphemy. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. And the T-shirt reads, “Faith is no reason.” The Center for Inquiry (CFI), an international advocacy group based in Amherst, N.Y., picked that brief phrase as the winner of its first-ever blasphemy contest.…

If this doesn’t give you pause, nothing will: a video game supposedly based on the mass. Judging from this article, some skeptics think it’s a joke. (Well, whether intended or not, it is a scream…) Personally, I have my doubts, but it’s just crazy enough to almost maybe possibly potentially be legit.  (Though my source for…

My gang at “Currents” got to chat with the legendary Rocco “Whispers in the Loggia” Palmo on Monday, to hear his take on the bishop’s confab that was then just starting in Baltimore. You can see and hear what he had to say right here.

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