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Did you know St. Jerome has a connection to doo-wop? This, from today’s New York Times: An Italian-American bluesman records a song in Florida. An Irish-American disc jockey plays it at a radio station in Woodstock, N.Y. He tells a friend from his old neighborhood in the Bronx about the song. And before you know…

A favorite joke: St. Peter is giving Jesus His monthly tour around heaven. Jesus notices there are some new faces who clearly don’t belong there. He’s understandably concerned. “Peter,” says Jesus, “I know who these people are, and some of them aren’t supposed to be Up Here. What’s going on?” Peter stops and sighs. “Well,…

Well, it took a while, but the Church — according to this report — has given her approval to an apparition in France: A Roman Catholic bishop said Sunday that the church has officially recognized that the Virgin Mary appeared to a teenage shepherd girl in the French Alps starting in the mid-1600s. The announcement…

Not far from my office is the beautiful church of St. Paul the Apostle, the headquarters for the Paulists. It’s a great place to visit on a lunch hour; they have Adoration on Friday afternoons and a little shop that is terrific for finding that last minute First Communion gift. The founder of the Paulists,…
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