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Funeral directors have a knack for helping people work their way through sudden, often tragic loss — and for Catholics in the profession, this truly is a “ministry of consolation.” Our Sunday Visitor explores this special vocation: In his poem, “Calling,” author and funeral director Thomas Lynch wrote about listening for the call from the…

After Archbishop Raymond Burke threw down the gauntlet a few days back, more or less daring Rudy Giuliani to approach the communion rail, the GOP candidate has responded: Republican Rudy Giuliani on Thursday brushed aside criticism from Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke who said he would deny Holy Communion to Giuliani and any other presidential…

Julie at Happy Catholic has posted the long-awaited movie trailer for the even longer-awaited movie version of Sondheim’s Grand Guignol masterpiece, Sweeney Todd. (There is a tiny Catholic connection, since this near-opera contains the giddy and macabre Act I finale “A Little Priest,” which sets the idea of murder and cannibalism to a merry waltz.)…

Are we losing a generation of Christians? That may be one conclusion you can draw from this troubling survey from the Barna Group. It indicates that a surprising number of young people do not have a favorable view of Christianity: As the nation’s culture changes in diverse ways, one of the most significant shifts is…
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