If you don’t recognize what’s happening in the picture on the left, you aren’t alone. Catholic education isn’t what it used to be. But with so many Catholic schools struggling — and fighting to stay open — an experiment in Boston caught my attention, courtesy this piece in the Boston Globe: The Rev. James Flavin…

Over at her self-named website, popular novelist Anne Rice (“Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt,” amnong others) has posted her own political manifesto. Rice has undergone quite a conversion (as she described in her last book, and in many interviews since) and has reportedly embraced Catholicism. But you might not know that from her statement,…

From the Netherlands comes this story of a priest who likes to give his villagers an early wake-up call: A Dutch priest has been fined 5,000 euros ($6,800) for ringing his church bells too loudly in the morning. The Catholic priest began ringing the bells at just after seven in the morning soon after arriving…

You never know where a vocation will come from. And this item from an Indianapolis newspaper tells of one vocation that took root and grew at an Ivy League school: Christopher Roberts was seemingly on track. Taking classes at Harvard University, he was on his way to a career as a lawyer — until God…

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