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Canon lawyer Ed Peters is batting around Canon 915 — withholding communion from someone who persists in grave sin — and says the most obvious case for applying the canon seems to be Nancy Pelosi: I suggest that there is no US Catholic politician whose conduct at the national level is more stridently and widely…

It’s always been a “dry” holy day in Ireland — but not this year: A Limerick judge ruled Thursday that the city’s 110 pubs can open April 2 because the city is hosting a major Irish rugby match attracting tens of thousands of visitors. This will be the first time in the history of the…

When she saw these images of the Annunciation, the wife of a deacon in Alaska sent me an icon created by her husband. It’s a stunner.  Below is the Annunciation by Deacon Charles Rohrbacher, from the Diocese of Juneau.

And now for something completely different: here’s part of the closing mass at the just-concluded Religious Education Congress in Anaheim. It includes the procession of all the clergy — including a dancing deacon.  Really. 

For today, the Feast of the Annunciation… “In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Hail,…

My siblings in Catholic media, Catholic TV in Boston, are taking the New Evangelization into another dimension: Avatars and Mad Hatters are already performing before American audiences in 3-D, and Shrek is coming soon. Now, a national Catholic television network is throwing priests into the mix. CatholicTV debuted 3-D programs Tuesday in an effort to…

From Up North comes word of a deacon following in the footsteps of St. Lawrence: On a recent morning in downtown Anchorage, slush covered the parking lot of Brother Francis Shelter as groups of homeless people congregated around the doorway of Beans Café. Across the parking lot, the shelter was mostly empty, its nighttime guests…

El Salvador made history today, three decades after the bloody event that gave the 20th century one of its most famous martyrs: Thirty years after Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated as he celebrated Mass, a divided Salvadoran society still struggles over his legacy and the failure of authorities to punish the killers. For the first…

This just in, from the Brooklyn Desk …where the news release below just fluttered in over the transom. Some of you have undoubtedly seen Rocco here or here. Well, now you’ll be able to see, and hear, more of him.    Rocco Palmo Joins NET’s Daily News Show “Currents” Brooklyn, NY, March 24, 2010 – One…

The USCCB has finally weighed in on the health care vote: The U.S. bishops called on Congress and people in the Catholic community to make sure promises are kept that new health care legislation will not expand abortions in the United States. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic…
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