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If you’d like some insight into how it’s done, this essay at the Catholic News Service is both informative, and inspiring. The pastor, Fr. Kenneth Doyle, concludes: There is still, of course, some sadness over the merger and some adjustment yet to be made; it is not an easy thing to give up the place…

How do you run a diocese with just a few priests and hundreds of miles of territory to cover? The St. Anthony Messenger finds some fascinating answers in Alaska: Despite the shortage of priests, the Anchorage Archdiocese has 32 vibrant parishes and missions. Parishes in urban Anchorage are much like city parishes anywhere, and the…

[My diocese, like many, has instituted new guidelines for receiving Holy Communion, amid growing concerns about the H1N1 virus.  One of those is the suggestion that Catholics, at least until the spring, only receive in the hand, not on the tongue.  Some people in my parish are balking at that.  Others do it, but haphazardly. …

“This new generation seems ideally positioned to address the lamentable tendency in American Catholic life to drive a wedge between the church’s pro-life message and its peace-and-justice commitments. More generally, they can help us find the sane middle between two extremes: What George Weigel correctly calls ‘Catholicism lite,’ meaning a form of the faith sold…
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