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International News
Pope Francis on Critics, Health, Homosexuality, and Benedict’s Death
Public criticism by cardinals and bishops is annoying -- "like a rash that bothers you a bit," Pope Francis said -- but differences need to be aired and criticism can be helpful, he told the Associated Press. Read More
International News
U.S. Watchdog Urges Special Attention to Anti-Christian Carnage in Nigeria
As the persecution of Christians in Nigeria continues, a member of the U.S. government’s international religious freedom watchdog has urged the State Department to designate Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern” and recommended the appointment of a Special Envoy for Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin. Read More
International News
Analysis: Running the Numbers, Africa Isn’t the Catholic Future — It’s the Present
While news agencies and Catholic social media denizens these days gorge themselves on the Vatican’s mounting “Battle of the Books,” seeing who can craft the most sensational headlines or tweets about several controversial new volumes making the rounds, other outfits are, thankfully, still concerned with things that actually matter. Read More
National News
Supreme Court to Hear Case of Postal Worker Forced to Work on Sundays
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case about religious accommodation this spring when it examines an appeal by a former postal worker who was forced to work Sundays delivering Amazon packages. Read More
National News
Only In Print: Memorial Mass Marks One-Year Anniversary of Heroes Slaying
NYPD detectives Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora were honored during a memorial Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the same place where the funerals for both detectives took place last year. Read More
Diocesan News
Tablet’s Editor Emeritus to Greet Parishioners at Book Signings
Ed Wilkinson, editor emeritus of The Tablet, who spent 50 years covering the Diocese of Brooklyn, has authored a book, “Chasing Church News,” featuring photos he has taken over the past five decades Read More
Columns
Pro Vita Mass Homily
Mother and Father of Migrants: Lessons Learned from Saints
Carrying the Cross For Jesus in D.C.
A Moment of Grace During The Recessional Hymn
Blessed Are Those Who Depend on God
Editorials
Moral Decline Leads to a City Where Crime Does Pay
March for Life Important Despite SCOTUS Ruling
Pope Benedict’s Death Is the End of an Era
Obituaries
Sister Beata Maria Berger
Dolores Regina Conklin Leckey
Sister M. Daria McGinn, IHM
Sister Ellen Patrice Hopkins, OP
Sister Elizabeth (Betty) O’Brien, CSJ
