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It’s not unusual for a parish to be upset when a pastor is reassigned. But it is unusual for a lot of powerful high-profile local politicians to get involved, as they’ve done in one New Jersey parish. Take a look: Political powerbrokers and parishioners are pressing the leader of northern New Jersey’s Roman Catholics to…

An alert reader sent this my way: a heartfelt appreciation in a Boston paper for a man who evidently touched many lives. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the Year for Priests than with this remembrance of one priest in particular, from columnist Peter Gelzinis: He was, for the record, a…

An American chaplain and hero from the Korean war could be on the path to sainthood, if a miracle now attributed to him can be confirmed. The details: People in Colwich like to touch Chase Kear’s arm or his shoulder with their fingers. Or they hug him. “Miracle Man,” they say. “Let me touch the…

Sad news out of Minnesota, with word that Fr. Tim Vakoc, a chaplain wounded in the Iraq war, has died: Father Tim, as he was known, was the first military chaplain grievously wounded in the Iraq war. He was injured by a roadside bomb as he was returning from celebrating mass with troops on May…
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