So this is what we have come to: a couple exchanging wedding vows in the landmark Apple Store in midtown Manhattan. The person officiating is dressed like Steve Jobs, and reading the vows from text on an iPhone. Strangers mull about, taking pictures with their iPhones. You can read all about it here.

That’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan, repeating one of his popular refrains, in an exclusive interview he gave to a New York TV station (no, it wasn’t mine, unfortunately). It’s part of a series of public appearances he’s made this week — including one at a Theology on Tap — to mark the one-year anniversary of Pope…

So says a recent study out of Mississippi: Women at Catholic colleges engage more frequently in sexual “hook ups” than women at secular colleges, a new study shows, and researchers suspect alcohol may be the reason. The study defines a “hook up” as “a physical encounter between two people who are largely unfamiliar with one…

And it’s causing a small sensation in Ireland: An Irish cleric’s congregation has increased tenfold in a week — thanks to a quickie Mass. Despite the controversies which have rocked the church in recent years and the resulting fall-off in attendances at church services, Fr Michael Kenny has been packing them in at his Kilconly…

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