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The Speaker of the House was speaking her mind yesterday — and trying to rally Catholics behind her latest cause: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Catholic leaders Thursday that she wants them to “play a very major role” in getting their parishioners to support immigration overhaul. “The cardinals, the archbishops, the bishops that come to…

Check out this potent new video from Illinois.   H/T Thomas Peters.

It’s a telling and tragic development in this predominantly Catholic country — and the lineup is, um, interesting: For married men and women who are harbouring suspicions about what their partner is getting up to, there will be information on how to hire a private investigator. And for those whose relationship has already turned toxic,…

This is an absolute hoot. Enjoy.

A conference in Rome later this month will try to answer that question — taking for its inspiration the legendary theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand. A press release notes: The conference will bring together philosophers, theologians, psychologists, physicians, scientists, and artists to unpack the original insights of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s most important philosophical work, The Nature…

Legendary blogger and “Currents” contributor Rocco Palmo is used to covering the news.  But now he’s actually making some.    From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Rocco Palmo’s life has been infused with four major blessings — his large Italian family, journalism, baseball and the Roman Catholic church. All four will coalesce Friday as the 27-year-old…

A longtime reader writes: The time in the ‘comment cloister’ has been a journey. It has caused me to consider my own quick-to-judge tendencies. Following the way I tend to see so many things – neither all good or all bad, I will say that in my own (good-i-think) desire to have real conversation I…

“For too long we’ve had a preferential option for mediocrity in the priesthood. We almost embrace mediocrity as the norm. What’s the difference between a doctor and a priest? As someone once answered long ago, there really is no comparison: one deals with matters of life and death; the other just deals with the health…

Whether we realize it or not, the figure of a Catholic priest has long played a starring role in the movies. CNS’s David DiCerta explains: In 1915, D.W. Griffith followed up his controversial silent classic “Birth of a Nation” with the ambitious epic “Intolerance,” which prominently featured a Catholic priest administering last rites to a…

A legendary New York columnist has moved to the great Copy Desk in the Sky. Bill Reel, who wrote the “Reel People” column for the New York Daily News, and later toiled for at time for my own diocesan paper, the Brooklyn Tablet, died Monday from cancer. Over at NRO’s The Corner, William McGurn takes note:…
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