A Look at Notre Dame Head Coach Marcus Freeman (Sept. 3)

University of Notre Dame football practice complex, South Bend, Indiana School days are back, and so is college football. Ahead of Week 1 of the 2022 college football season, the Register’s Senior Editor Jonathan Liedl talked to the Fighting Irish’s new head coach Marcus Freeman about faith, fatherhood and Notre Dame football.

Daily Rome Shot 552, etc.

Someone asked in email what I am reading right now.  I just finished a reading, after decades, of Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain.  [US HERE– UK HERE] It was lyrically beautiful. Also, in the evening, I am working my way though … Read More →

Nicaraguan judge sentences priest to 49 years for rape

MEXICO CITY — A judge in Nicaragua sentenced a Roman Catholic priest to 49 years in prison Friday for the rape of a 14-year-old girl. Judge Edén Aguilar Castro sentenced Father José Leonardo Urbina to 24 years in prison on two counts of abuse and 25 years for one count of rape. However, Aguilar Castro […]

Indiana court sides with archdiocese over teacher firing

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Indiana Supreme Court said the state could not interfere in a Catholic school’s firing of a teacher in a same-sex marriage because of the school’s religious freedom rights. The court, in its Aug. 31 ruling, sided with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis in supporting Cathedral High School’s 2019 decision to fire Joshua […]