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Last Sunday, the choir at my parish offered us a little Handel for Advent: “And the Glory of the Lord,” sung during the offertory. It was a wonderful rendition, beautifully performed — and, I think, a joyous foretaste of Christmas. Here’s a version I found online, from the Choir of King’s College. Enjoy.

I suspect that my Methodist-born mother would have been tickled by this bit of news from, of all places, Rome: Catholics, Anglicans and Methodists filled Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls with some of the most famous hymns written by Charles Wesley at a service marking the 300th anniversary of the Methodist reformer’s…

If — like countless Catholics — you have your sock drawer stuffed with torn and crumpled Holy Cards, have no fear. Modern technology is creating a new kind of card, for a new kind of Catholic. You can now get the images sent to your cellphone: A company in Italy started offering the service on…

In Great Britain, they’ve found a novel way to use 21st century technology in the service of a 1st century message: ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ is likely to become the most favoured carol in Catholic parishes up and down the country this Christmas. For the first time in England and Wales, hundreds of thousands…
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