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While the first Catholic Church in Pennsylvania was founded in
While the first Catholic Church in Pennsylvania was founded in 1733 or 1734 in Philadelphia, I learned today the first Mass in western Pennsylvania --...

Fides has the round up for pastoral care workers known to have
Fides has the round up for pastoral care workers known to have been killed in 2013. Nearly double the number for 2012. (Curiously, Google informed m...

"Religion is the bogeyman for secular society, that against which
"Religion is the bogeyman for secular society, that against which we define ourselves. We have learned to tame religion, to put it in its proper, priv...

Today is the feast of the sixteen Blessed Carmelite Martyrs of
Today is the feast of the sixteen Blessed Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, taken to Paris and guillotined on this day in 1794. Their crimes were "fana...

"Religious liberty as an ideal sounds lovely. But in the abstract,
"Religious liberty as an ideal sounds lovely. But in the abstract, it has very little power. It has political force only to the degree that ordinary p...

"On June 14/27, the Fourth Portion of the Mother of God on
"On June 14/27, the Fourth Portion of the Mother of God on Earth—Diveyevo Convent—honors its own saints. Before the revolution in 1917, there were...