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Leave it to California: this weekend, they had the traditional Blessing of the Waves out in Orange County. It was totally gnarly, dude: About 400 people gathered at sunrise Sunday to thank God for a gnarly ocean and to hang ten on some righteous waves. The Roman Catholic Dioceses of Orange hosted its first annual…

Many of us are familiar with the annual Red Mass, celebrated for lawyers, or the Blue Mass, for law enforcement officers. Now comes word of another color added to the liturgical rainbow: a Gold Mass. From the Catholic Standard in Washington: Shimmering gold and red vestments accompanied by heavenly voices contributed to a genuine sense…

One year after the pope mandated a “freeing up” of the Latin rite, some of its most strident supporters still aren’t happy. (Anyone who has ever sat on a parish committee or attended a PTA meeting or organized a car wash for the CYO — or even run a blog — will not be surprised…

A rare and unusual way of celebrating the mass is about to begin in the Archdiocese of Newark — mass for the deaf, celebrated by a priest using American Sign Language. And the person spearheading the effort is a local deacon. From the Newark Advocate newspaper: A long history of serving the deaf community throughout…
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