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There’s a tiny corner of Catholicism we don’t hear much about, way up near the Arctic Circle. But the website Total Catholic has just corrected that injustice, with a look at Catholic life among the handful of the faithful in Greenland: While more than 80 per cent of its one million square miles is covered…

I’m not entirely sure what to make of this oddity, from St. Louis, but it’s certainly, um, different: Residents along Milton Road could be saved from the view of a hulking cell phone tower if one company has its way. Saved, that is, by a giant cross. Creve Coeur-based CIS Communications has put forth a…

I’ve always been impressed at the surprisingly large number of cops and former cops who find themselves attracted to the diaconate. There are a number of them in the Diocese of Brooklyn — each enthusiastically continuing the vocation to serve that is a hallmark of life on the beat or in the precinct. Now, the…

Football season is winding down — which makes this profile of a Milwaukee coach all the more timely, and important. For Coach Bob Hyland, coming off a 3-7 season, winning isn’t the point: Hyland was pleased with the effort, determination and hard work of his players. They never gave up, he said. He uses that…

Some news from the other side of the world: Australia has chosen a native son to provide some of the important artwork that will be on display for World Youth Day 2008: The work of Richard Campbell, an Australian from the Gumbaingirr/Dhungutti people, has been selected to be displayed at World Youth Day events and…

Here’s something you don’t read every day: a mother’s letter about her daughter, a cloistered nun. It’s a beautiful testament of faith and love and joy. You’ll want to read it all, but here’s part: Sarah had countless interests. She dropped them and never looked back. Many people have considered it a shame that someone…

Andrew Greeley has weighed in on the bishops’ document on “Faithful Citizenship” and, as always, he has some provocative points: If we are to believe the media, the Catholic bishops warned American Catholics that if they voted for a candidate who supported abortion, their eternal salvation might be in jeopardy. I don’t think that’s what…

What do New Yorkers think of the pope? Take a gander at these poll results: Nearly one-quarter of New York City voters have an unfavorable opinion of Pope Benedict XVI and a similar proportion do not approve of the way he is doing his job, but an overwhelming majority of New Yorkers — 70 percent…

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   “You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston…

We all know the pope has his hands full these days, what with Advent about to begin and the new encyclical about to be signed. But now something else has dropped into his “in” box: Iran. This comes to us from Time magazine: The diplomatic chess game around Iran’s nuclear program includes an unlikely bishop.…
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