The Diocese of Fr. Fay: The pastor of St. Michael Church resigned after a preliminary financial audit uncovered more than $500,000 in spending that the Archdiocese of Bridgeport is still trying to account for, officials announced yesterday. Bishop William Lori told St. Michael’s parishioners yesterday that he asked for and received the resignation of their…

The Pope, at today’s Angelus: Christians are “heirs to past divisions,” but “Christ can do anything, he ‘makes the deaf hear and (the) mute speak’ (Mk 7, 37),” he can instil in Christian the ardent desire to listen to and communicate with one another and speak together with Him the language of mutual love.” It…

Yesterday was the third annual West Coast March for Life out in San Francisco Here’s the SF Chronicle Report This year’s rally included an invocation by San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, whose prayer asked God to "renew a readiness (among people) to nurture and sustain your precious gift of life." While speakers at Justin Herman…

Thanks to a reader (I forgot who!) who pointed us to this week’s edition of the BBC radio program In Our Time, which this week concerns the Jesuits: Today we’re discussing the Jesuits, a Catholic religious order of priests who became known as “the school masters of Europe”. Founded in the 16th century by the…

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