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Yesterday, I linked to a First Things post about the “10 Worst Hymns.” A friend and longtime reader wrote to me this morning, disappointed: I think lists like this could be a turn off for some Catholics of my generation (30s). FWIW, it didn’t sit well with me. Like it or not, hokey as these…

He may be the most unusual priest in all of Mexico — but he speaks to his flock in a language they understand. His story, from the New York Times: Frederick Loos was cussing like a sailor the other night, which was surprising given that he is a Roman Catholic priest and his foul-mouthed discourse…

A wedding photographer, perhaps confused about which sacrament he’s attending, opts for full immersion.

Ross Douthat has some thoughts on that question: The Church has been horrifyingly corrupt in previous eras and still survived. It’s been led by ecclesiastics who make Bernard Law’s hands look clean, and still survived. It’s faced fiercer enemies than Richard Dawkins (think Nero, or Attila, or Voltaire) and still survived. Time after time, G.…
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