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(You won’t believe this, but I still feel as if I’m just getting started on this reporting…) Week ago today, we attended the General Audience in St. Peter’s Square.  We had our tickets, retrieved Tuesday evening – an acquaintance arranged ours, but do know these are not hard to get. Santa Susanna, the Paulist-run American…

One of the big news items enflaming the Catholic blogosphere as well as the secular press in Orange County, CA, is the recent action of a pastor and Bishop Tod Brown telling a group of parishioners to leave their parish and diocese. For what? On the surface, for refusing to submit to the liturgical norm…

This trip gave Joseph the chance to write his first real joke. He would ask me, "Is it your birthday soon?" I would say, "No." His next question: "When is your birthday?" "July." Mischievous grin, "Gelato?" Followed by triumphant laughter. "Gelato? " Conan O’Brien, call your office.

Not unreasonably, the question is being asked early and often…how did the children do? By which they mean the 4-year old and the 1-year old we dragged to Rome. Katie, for her part, did fine – helped a great deal by various tour guides, who, I think, are important for helping keep teens engaged. I…
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