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Here is a great blog post I came across from The Federalist called A Bit Of Religion Can Be Bad For Marriage which shows how practicing your faith and attending Church weekly has a very good effect on your marriage: Here’s the key nuance: while religious affiliation makes no difference when it comes to divorce, religious attendance does.

“Mass is so boring!” How often have you parents heard that from your kids on Sunday morning? How often have our teachers and catechists heard it as they prepare our children for Mass? And, let’s admit it, how often have we said it to ourselves?

A week or so ago, I watched with shame as an angry mob in southern California surrounded buses filled with frightened, hungry, homeless immigrants, shaking fists, and shouting for them to “get out!” It was un-American; it was un-biblical; it was inhumane.

In response to the ad on p. A13 in today’s New York Times, here’s my Catholic New York column: I prayed, I hoped, that the notoriously anti-Catholic firebrands of the nebulous and anonymous “Freedom From Religion Foundation” (FFRF) in Madison, Wisconsin, would once again, as they predictably had in the past, print a full-page, drippingly bigoted blast in the hospitable pages of the New York Times .

Please click Actualización Haciendo Todas las Cosas Nuevas for the Spanish version of my July 1st blog on Making All Things New.

Discovery Channel/WAG TV recently featured St. Patrick’s Cathedral in an episode of “How Do They Do It?” Take a look at the work going on at America’s Parish Church; for more information on the restoration, please go here .

A week or so ago, I was blessed with a visit by a group of very hardworking New Yorkers – airport workers at the two New York City airports. These workers – both men and women – clean the planes, fill certain security and safety roles, help and transport passengers, and handle baggage.

+ Feast of Blessed Junipero Serra I was actually dreading the meetings of yesterday and today… Attending these all-day sessions were the priest council members, the vicars, and the working group for Making All Things New, our strategic pastoral planning process.

In case you missed them, here are some excellent responses in today’s papers to yesterday’s Supreme Court pro-religious liberty decision in the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood case. Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Archbishop of Louisville, wrote an outstanding column in today’s New York Post.