As we get ready for another Ash Wednesday, and another 40-day sojourn into the desert, the Arkansas Catholic has this intriguing item reminding us that Lent is not just a Catholic thing anymore: Beginning Ash Wednesday, Catholics enter the 40-day penitential season of Lent, but they are not the only Christians to do so. In…

Courtesy the Loggia-Whisperer, the text of Archbishop Dolan’s remarks this morning to his new flock: Thank you, Cardinal Egan, for your gracious words of welcome. To know you are and will be at my side is a genuine blessing indeed. Thank you, members of the media, and so many listening and watching with us this…

…is finally out. And the Grey Lady has it on page one. UPDATE: Michael Sean Winters has this glowing first review: During his time in Milwaukee, Dolan has been a model of centrism. At the blog “Cheeky Pink Girl” there is a posting by a conservative critic of Dolan: “On the other hand, while Dolan…

This little item may be a shock to many who watched the drama of World Youth Day unfold last summer. From a paper in Australia: World Youth Day was hailed for reigniting youthful passion in the Catholic Church, but the young woman who embodied the spirit of the event in the key role of Mary…

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