March 14 - St. Mathilda

For more information on today's tenth century saint, see Saint-a-Day.

While I was surfing away today at lunch, I found a few religion news sources of interest:

Catholic World News
http://www.cwnews.com/
Description from their site:
Catholic World News is an independent Catholic news service staffed by lay Catholic journalists, dedicated to providing accurate world news, written from a distinctively Catholic perspective

Catholic.net
http://www.catholic.net/
Description from their site:
This directory, based in New Haven, CT, is the new, successor site to the Catholic Information Center on the Internet (CICI), one of the pioneering Catholic web sites since its inception in 1995.

Catholic News Service
http://www.catholicnews.com
Description from their site:
While created in 1920 by the bishops of the United States, CNS is editorially independent and a financially self-sustaining division of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. CNS is staffed by trained, professional journalists; all eligible nonmanagement staffers are members of The Newspaper Guild/Communications Workers of America.

American Catholic
http://www.americancatholic.org/
A news and information site run by the Franciscans of Cincinnati, OH.

If you'd like to learn more about the Catholic Church at home and at your own pace, see the Catholic Home Study service run by the Vincentian order.

And one item of note from the UK's Guardian:

Sad news for one of New Orleans historic Catholic parishes:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/18/AR2006031801074.html