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Author Archives: Tony Spence
Almost Midnight Mass every weekend at St. Malachy’s on Broadway
There are a lot of things you can do on Broadway after the curtain falls at the end of a performance. You can catch a late dinner, join some friends for a drink, or go out dancing. Or you can … Continue reading
US religion writers pick bishops’ battle with HHS as 2012 top news story
Members of the Religion Newswriters Association, the world’s oldest and largest professional non-denominational association for journalists who write about religion, picked the U.S. Catholic bishops’ opposition to national health care legislation mandating contraception coverage as the No. 1 religion story … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 elections, Catholic press, health care, media, politics, Vatican
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Vatican II fathers OK’d languages people use daily
The first session of the Second Vatican Council ended Dec. 8, 1962, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, with a closing Mass and speech by Pope John XXIII. You read the speech and the CNS report on the closing congregation … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, CNS, Vatican
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Liturgy was first up at the Second Vatican Council
Did you ever wonder why the Mass is structured the way it is? Latin-rite Catholics — 90 percent of us — have been celebrating Mass in the ordinary form we know today for about 45 years. That is longer than … Continue reading
Posted in CNS, Vatican
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CNS launches new Vatican II look-back project
Yesterday, Catholic News Service launched a new feature, “Vatican II: 50 years ago today,” a step back in time to the daily activities of the Second Vatican Council. Pope John XXIII called for an ecumenical council in 1959, the first … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic press, CNS, Vatican
U.S. well represented among experts at Second Vatican Council
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council in October 1962. We thought it would be a good opportunity to look back for the next year or so on some of the coverage of … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic press, CNS, Vatican
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Preparing for Nov. 6 not a cut-and-dry exercise
Most polls show that American voters have already made up their minds for which presidential candidate they will cast their vote on Nov. 6. Most pundits agree that President Obama and Governor Romney are arm-wrestling over a handful of undecideds … Continue reading
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