This caught my eye over at the blog Roman Catholic Vocations: the story of a Canadian permanent deacon who is also a military chaplain: In an environment where death and brutality is inevitably part of the process, faith and religion are too. “We’re that light in the darkness, that calm in the storm,” said Maj.…

The Diocese of Ogdensburg is grieving this week over the sudden death of a seminarian, Deacon Adam Crowe, who would have been ordained this spring. This tragic news hits especially hard in vocation-strapped Ogdensburg; Crowe was the only candidate for ordination this year. From the Watertown Daily Times: There will be no ordination ceremony at…

For several days there have been dark suggestions that something was up, and now American Papist confirms it: The Ex LC Blog is claiming that Marcial Maciel is being renounced as the spiritual founder of the Legionaries of Christ, at least in some chapters, due to recent details that have emerged as the result of…

This impressive story about young lay Catholics in Washington was published several days ago, and I’m finally getting around to reading and posting. Take a moment and read what these kids are doing. It’s something. Truly. A snip: Now for the peekaboo pumps: Do they stay? Or go? The missionary spins a shoe in her…

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