Check out this new resource for my diocese that just debuted Holy Week: brooklynpriests.org. The video is truly inspired. As one of the producers said to me, “We wanted it to look like a superhero putting on his uniform. Like ‘Batman Begins.'” Check it out.

A reader dropped the following note to Rod Dreher, and he posted it on his Beliefnet blog. It speaks for itself. Beautifully. (And it doesn’t hurt that the author evidently likes Merton.) Take a look: I’m a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma and though I grew up Southern Baptist (and I still have strong…

This obituary from the Philadelphia Daily News caught my eye: it’s about a priest who was ordained late in life and, in a rare exception, served as a permanent deacon for a number of years before entering the priesthood: The Rev. Msgr. Albert V. Norrell was a priest before he became a priest. That is,…

Ever since Cardinal Egan’s eyebrow-raising remarks on celibacy earlier this month, there’s been more discussion about a married priesthood. (Shameless plug: Part of that discussion will take part Sunday night on The NET, on a program I produce called “In the Arena,” where we’ll talk to a married priest from Connecticut and hear — surprisingly…

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