The American deacon who was healed through the intercession of John Henry Newman is now on Newman’s home turf: Deacon Jack Sullivan, whose miraculous healing in 2001 is the basis for Newman’s Beatification next year, has arrived in England on a short visit. Later this week he will visit the Birmingham Oratory (UK), in a…

The recent overture to the Anglicans has gotten more people to look at the question of a married priesthood. And that’s sent some reporters scurrying to talk to priests who left ministry to marry: One of the hardest things Ed Donaghy has ever done was leave his ministry as a Catholic priest. For months, he…

A priest from Boston found himself serving in Texas — and serving, as well, the victims of last week’s tragedy at Fort Hood. From the Boston Globe: The Rev. Edward McCabe didn’t want to go to Fort Hood when the assignment came for the Army Reserves captain to become senior Catholic chaplain at the sprawling…

Last month, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan took on the New York Times in his blog — and had some particularly sharp words for columnist Maureen Dowd.  Now, the paper’s Public Editor, Clark Hoyt, has decided to look into Dolan’s charges of anti-Catholicism. A snip: Dolan seemed particularly offended by Dowd’s column, in which she…

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