If you ever wondered what seminarians do during their summer vacation — I know that has been on your mind, hasn’t it? — the Florida Catholic newspaper has this intriguing profile of how some men in St. Petersburg are spending these weeks: College students home for summer break typically hang with friends or work jobs.…

Anyone wondering how the Church is using new media to reach the masses might just want to download this unusual selection to their iPod: the rosary, set to contemporary music. From the AP, via a newspaper in Salt Lake City: Madonna is on Jennifer Zablocki’s iPod. So is ”The Madonna.” The Detroit-area 12th-grade teacher works…

Hard to believe, but it’s been five years since Sean O’Malley became the Archbishop of Boston, replacing the notorious Bernard Law, who had left in disgrace several months earlier. I’ll be up front about this: I’m an O’Malley fan. (It’s hard not to like a man with a red hat who wears a brown robe.…

With so much attention over the last few days being directed at the anniversary of Humanae Vitae a certain amount of attention should also go to the woman pictured on the left. She is Mrs. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. I discovered the other day a rare television interview with her — and…

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