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Let me share with you my most recent column in Catholic New York about our beloved priests. Here is an excerpt: Thanks, then, to our priests. Your obedience is downright inspirational. Overwhelmingly, you know it’s not about you, but about Jesus, His Church, His people.

As you are probably aware, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is going through a very rough time. Those good people, our family members in the “Household of the Faith,” and their brave archbishop, Charles Chaput, deserve our love and prayers.

Let me share with you my Catholic New York column that was published this week about Catholic statistics and the challenge of new evangelization. Do you agree that we get way too many statistics? Seems as if every time I turn around, I’m looking at “the results of a new survey.” What’s worse, the findings often seem to contradict themselves!

In the Spring 2012 issue of The Human Life Review , I came across an article about Wesley Smith’s piece on human dignity and Rev. W. Ross Blackburn’s interesting response . I would like to share it with all of you.

Tomorrow is the birthday of our nation, and with the rest of you, I will be thanking God for the bountiful blessings He has lavished upon our wonderful country. Daily I find myself praying for citizens and inhabitants of other nations where, instead of peace, prosperity, and freedom, they experience war, violence, hunger, persecution, sickness, poverty, and oppression.