Scrolling through the feed on LinkedIn I came across this photo showing the Catholic Dioceses with the largest rise in converts. The Altoona-Johnstown Diocese reports an 84% increase in converts to the faith. Could this increase in converts be an example of a Pope Leo XIV effect? He is the first Pope to be born […]
Maus by Art Spiegelman was the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer prize. It tells the story of the Holocaust with the Jews depicted as mice and the Nazis depicted as cats. The news that a school board in Tennessee has banned the book (summarized by David Corn in MotherJones) has made me think of my […]
Shaun Dougherty It was a successful meeting to organize for Bernie Sanders last Sunday. We had 27 volunteers and are now working to get him and his delegates to the national convention on the ballot for the April 28th primary. Other races are also heating up in the area. My former classmate Shaun Dougherty has […]
As 2019 comes to a close I thought I would imitate other media news outlets and look at the top 10 posts on this site in terms of the number of page views. The majority of the posts came in the early part of this year and in the later part. Posts made before 2019 […]
Diocese # of Abuser Clergy Catholic population Per capita Abusers Grand Jury Year Allentown 37 258,997 14.29 2018 Erie 41 221,508 18.51 2018 Harrisburg 45 230,000 19.57 2018 Pittsburgh 99 632,138 15.66 2018 Scranton 59 348,600 16.92 2018 Greensburg 20 137,641 14.53 2018 Philadelphia 63 1,188,225 5.30 2003 […]
