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We’re seeing it here in Brooklyn, and it’s happening everywhere: ethnic parishes, built by the blood, sweat and tears of Slavs, Italians, Poles and Germans, are rapidly disappearing. Immigrants are moving to the suburbs, and their children are scattering. Here’s a glimpse at what that means for the industrial area of Allentown, Pennsylvania: It’s Polish…

In some places, it seems, the era of liturgical innovation is far from over. And one of those places is Holland. Sandro Magister from Rome has done a little digging into what is happening to Catholicism in the land of tulips and windmills: In restoring full citizenship to the ancient rite of the Mass, with…

A few weeks ago, some people were running in circles with their hair on fire, saying Mother Teresa was an atheist and a fraud. Now, it seems, they’re doing the same thing about Padre Pio and his stigmata: John XXIII believed Padre Pio, the hugely popular Capuchin monk who was canonised in 2002, was a…

The news seems to be improving for Southern California — but for many families, and many communities, the damage is done. That includes an Indian reservation where a mission church was destroyed. From CNS: A Catholic church on an Indian reservation was one of the casualties of the ongoing wildfires that have hit Southern California.…
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