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…and in ways you’d never expect. This is just incredibly cool. The description on YouTube puts it thusly: This is a song about a church being moved hundreds of miles across the US on the back of a very big lorry. Features the 40 strong Manning Chorus in what is possibly one of the most…

It seems Pope Benedict is also Pop Benedict. Soda pop, to be exact: Winston Churchill made no secret of his love of brandy and cigars; Margaret Thatcher was bereft without her handbag, and Pope Benedict XVI, I can reveal, has Fanta. When the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, visited the Vatican this week, he gave…

A recent post about Catholic writers prompted a reader to ask: What exactly is a Catholic writer? I prefer “Christian writer” who happens to be Catholic -and who is espoused to catholic dogma. No? It’s a good question — and I found one answer in this week’s Tablet, the paper of my home diocese, Brooklyn,…

I got a letter today from my friend, the Trappist priest and writer James Stephen Behrens (known to his pals as “Jeff.”) He enclosed with it, as he does with many letters, a short reflection. In this one, he wrote about what it was like when he was a parish priest; on the first Friday…
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