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Some sad news out of France: the country’s leading cardinal, and a man once mentioned as a possible successor to Pope John Paul, has died: Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the retired Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris, died in the French capital Sunday, aged 80, the government said. He passed away in a medical clinic where he…

Of the many stories that have come out of the rubble of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, this one is one of the more inspiring: Father Bryan Lynch, associate pastor at St. Ambrose of Woodbury, a St. Paul suburb, was driving on Interstate 35W south in Minneapolis heading toward the Mississippi bridge about 6:20 p.m., 15…

Back in the 1947 – 60 years ago — newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst bought an estate in Beverly Hills for the then-astounding sum of 120-thousand dollars. Hearst only lived there four years before he died. A variety of other people have owned it since then, and it acquired a colorful history. Well, last month,…

At a time when some Protestants are not all that thrilled with the letter from Pope Benedict asserting Catholic primacy, some Catholics and Lutherans are trying to find some common ground: Milwaukee’s Catholic auxiliary bishop is about to find himself in what some might assume would be an uncomfortable position – addressing more than 1,000…

The always-interesting Rod Dreher has a good chin-scratcher of a post today, about the relative value of Christian kitsch. He describes, in excrutiating detail, a honeymoon pilgrimage he and his bride made to Fatima: A more gaudy, vulgar display of popular piety I’ve never seen. There were (literally) glow-in-the-dark Virgin Marys in shop windows. There…

After causing all sorts of hand-wringing and teeth-grinding over inviting an “womanpriest” to speak, the St. Thomas More Society of San Diego has had second thoughts: Just days before her scheduled appearance before the St. Thomas More Society of San Diego, the group’s board of directors has voted to disinvite “womanpriest” Jane Via. At a…

More than few people I know have wondered: “Why haven’t they made Oscar Romero a saint?” This article attempts to answer that question, and finds some interesting theories: Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, the outspoken church leader who was killed in 1980 as he celebrated Mass, has become as polarizing in death as he…

Baltimore’s beautifully restored basilica seems to have a sparked another kind of restoration: Catholic curiosity. According to Whispers in the Loggia, visitors have been flooding the place — and not just Catholic visitors, either: Yesterday, the cardinal — the Premier See’s apostolic administrator following his retirement as archbishop last month — welcomed the 100,000th visitor…

A Friday treat from that Happy Catholic, Julie: here’s a priceless clip that reveals the first ever IT support call.

According to the British press, one of Queen Elizabeth’s grandsons has made the unfortunate mistake of falling in love with a Catholic: Peter Phillips, the Queen’s eldest grandson, may have to give up his place in the line of succession to the throne after it emerged that his bride-to-be is a Roman Catholic. Peter Phillips…
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