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Clean Water Should Not Be a Day’s Walk Away
Today is World Water Day. So, while you and I may mark this date on our calendar just once a…
Monthly Archives: March, 2011
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Ensuring Women’s Safety and Dignity Where Bathrooms Are Scarce
“During the floods, we saw funerals for women who’d died of snakebites,” says Jaya Menon, a Catholic Relief Services staffer…
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The Ted Kennedy Chronicles: A Look at the Latest Declassified FBI Files
Another round of declassified FBI files on Senator Ted Kennedy has been released (click here and here). Fittingly, in Kennedy’s…
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Ryan Takes the Battle to Obama
The Democrats in the Senate have been fighting a rear guard action, trying to obstruct the House Republicans in their…
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Growing in Faith
The Feast of the Annunciation (March 25th, nine short shopping months until Christmas!) reminds me of the response we might…
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San Clemente
San Clemente, today’s station church, is one of the greatest places to experience Rome’s many layers. Here, a twelfth century…
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S. Maria in Domnica
Perhaps better known by it’s nickname, Santa Maria della Navicella, today’s station church is Santa Maria in Domnica. In the ninth century,…
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Lenten Transfiguration
Imagine: you are ten years past customary retirement age. It’s time finally to kick back and relax. You live in…
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S. Pietro in Vaticano
Yesterday we visited the church of Santi Apostoli. This is the church where candidates for the priesthood would go on Ember…
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The Altar and the Confessional: A Pastoral Letter on the Sacrament of Penance
My dear friends in Christ: On this Feast of Saint Patrick, I wish the entire Archdiocese of New York an…