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Matthew McDonald

Reporter · US

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11
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 4, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Matthew McDonald

    Credit Card Collections? Catholic Churches Use Tap Technology to Capture Cashless Donations (opens the original)

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    For years, Cory Howat pondered a mystery of the age: It’s easier to pay a modern vending machine than a Catholic parish. “So you can get a Coke and a Snickers, but you can’t give to Jesus this way?” Howat, executive director of the Catholic Community Foundation of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, told the Register, referring to making credit card payments on the go. “The Church has to figure this out.” Enter credit-card-tap collection baskets, now available at a handful of Catholic churches in th

  2. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Matthew McDonald

    Is the World Ready for a Game-Show Saint? (opens the original)

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    Fulton Sheen’s 1956 Appearance on ‘What’s My Line?’ When Archbishop Fulton Sheen is beatified on Sept. 24, it will put him one step closer to possibly becoming the first canonized saint ever to have appeared on a game show. That isn’t how most people nowadays view the author, theologian, and radio and television broadcaster who in his prime was the most famous American Catholic. But that’s how many Americans viewed him on Sunday, Oct. 21, 1956, when the then-bishop walked on the set of CBS’ What

  3. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Matthew McDonald

    US Dioceses Vary in Granting, Denying Religious Exemptions to Vaccines (opens the original)

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    As students begin a new school year, parents who don’t want to vaccinate their children may or may not receive backing from the local Church — depending who their bishop is. What should Catholic schools do when parents object to vaccinating their children on religious grounds? Prompted by a conflict in Florida between the state attorney general and local bishops, the Register recently obtained vaccination policies from 28 Catholic dioceses in 19 states covering all major regions of the country.

  4. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · Matthew McDonald

    Peter Kreeft: The Consummate Catholic Professor (opens the original)

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    The philosopher and author of more than 100 books (including one on the spirituality of surfing) is about to start his 62nd year of teaching at Boston College. Editor’s Note: This story is part of the Register’s special report on “Legendary Professors.” Read the first story here. Peter Kreeft loves teaching and hates committees so much that years ago he made a deal with the philosophy department chairman to teach an extra course in exchange for not having to do administrative tasks. But then, he

  5. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Matthew McDonald

    In Defense of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne: Part 2 (opens the original)

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    EDITORIAL: It turns out that fending off the gender-ideology police is the least of the sisters’ troubles with the state of New York. It’s a safe bet that the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have garnered more news coverage in the past 125 days than they did in the preceding 125 years. That’s about how long they’ve quietly done the Lord’s work in upstate New York, compassionately caring for people with terminal illnesses at the order’s Rosary Hill home. If the sisters sound familiar, it’s because

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