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Some weeks back, I posted an item on how too many priests aren’t fit — physically, that is. Now comes this nifty news item about a physically fit friar — the “Iron Friar” — who puts all of us to shame: Atonement Father Dan Callahan evangelizes underwater. And on a bike. And while he’s running.…

This is a lovely ode to the great Randy Pausch, from Tom Dermody, editor of The Catholic Post newspaper of Peoria, Illinois. Watch and weep. H/T to Catholic News Service blog.

Yep. Hard to believe, but true. At a time when Catholic schools are closing, are raising tuition to levels many parents can’t afford, one school in Pennsylvania is bucking the trend. It’s free. From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: When the Rev. John Haney came to St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin in 1983, the church elementary…

Above is the “word cloud” that someone created of the top 20 most-used words that people posted at Tributes.com about Randy Pausch. Now a woman who wrote one of the many obituaries about Randy has shed some light on the phenomenal public grief that surrounded his death. From Wired: When news of Pausch’s passing surfaced,…
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