Ontario, Canada -- No strikes or job sanctions by Catholic teachers [1]

Holyoke, Mass. -- Priest Describes Being Mugged of Collection Money [2]

NCR's sister publication, Celebration, posts reflections on each day's Scripture reading. Here's a link: celebrationpublications.org/dailybread [3]. You may want to bookmark it. It's a great way to begin the day.

Opinion from the Irish Times: Being a Catholic these days can feel like being stuck in an episode of 'Father Ted' [4]

William H. Macy: Candid Thoughts On Acting, The Catholic Church & Marriage [5]. Plays the priest in "The Sessions."

Ireland: Four bishops have taken part in street protests against abortion outside the Irish parliamentary building in Dublin. [6]

NCR Archives: 1992 Saginaw Bishop Untener ‘There goes a shepherd’ [7]

The Diocese of La Crosse is “not doing real well financially,” said Bishop William P. Callahan, who nonetheless sees a bright future as people respond to the church’s needs [8]. Future might include parish consolidations and different educational models.

Retired Bishop Sullivan to go to hospice with cancer [9]

Catholic teen's gay marriage stance unsettles Minnesota town [10]

Opinion: The deacon preached his wife's words [11] by Bob Keeler

Reaction to the above opinion: Catholic women do, in fact, preach [12]