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The Bishop of Tucson, Gerald Kicanas, presides over a diocese that runs along the border with Mexico . He’s been vocal about immigration reform, and he gave an interview to “Currents” last week, just before the controversial new Arizona law took effect. He explains the USCCB’s stand on immigration quite clearly.  Check it out, below.…

Word today that Mitch Miller has gone to the the big recording studio in the sky. He was 99. Enjoy this blast from the past. Remember when THIS was television?

Leave it to The Anchoress to craft this beautiful and heartfelt meditation. Don’t you know someone who could benefit from this prayer? A snip: First Mystery: Jesus in Gethsemane Prayer: Lord, I feel stranded and abandoned. Although I am surrounded by well-wishers, there is a sense of isolation. Friends who had pledged support are falling…

A legal skirmish is brewing in Chicago, over the issue of public prayer outside a Planned Parenthood facility.  From FOX: A Chicago man says he’s fighting charges of disorderly conduct for simply standing on a public sidewalk and praying. Joseph Holland, a 25-year-old graduate student at Northwestern University, says he was standing still praying the…

It may be too soon to tell, but there are some encouraging signs around the country, beginning in California: From a young age, Juan Alejo has aspired to live a priest’s life. “Since I was a kid, I heard this call,” said Alejo. Now the 35-year-old, who is heeding that summons by attending St. Patrick’s…

Can I hear an “Amen!”? The New York Times looks at some worrisome trends involving people who do the work of the Lord — and need a break: The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few years, and with little notice: Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression…

Some readers may remember the “Mass on the Grass” from last month — a liturgy celebrated before a baseball game on a field in Illinois. Catholic News Agency has a followup: Thanks to discussions between a priest and a minor league baseball team official, the Kane County Cougars of the Class A Midwest League hosted…

Salesians everywhere are excited to learn that the saint’s relics will be coming to the United States next month: More than 16 months after it began a world tour touching over 100 nations, a casket containing relics of St. John Bosco is scheduled to visit the United States and Canada beginning in mid-September. The pilgrimage…

See how these Christians love one another, in this impressive story by Patricia Zapor of CNS. From The Tidings: Victor Hernandez Martinez, a blacksmith with his own business near Seattle, was on his third day at the “Centro para Atención a los Migrantes Deportados,” the Center to Help Deported Migrants, a few hundred yards inside…

Seems the most celebrated wedding of the summer has thrown a spotlight on an issue that is becoming more common — and, sometimes, more problematic and complicated. From USA TODAY: Chelsea Clinton, a Methodist, and Marc Mezvinsky, a conservative Jew, had their very private wedding on Saturday. But the public may not be done peering…
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