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Just before Christmas, the New York Times had a terrific piece on the good work being done by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (Fr. Benedict Groeschel’s boys) in the South Bronx. Take a look: Hearing a knock at the door, Brother Nicholas White peeked through a small cross-shaped window and opened the door at…

With the Feast of the Holy Family on Sunday, the Catholic Standard in Washington has a wonderful glimpse at how one family aspiring to holiness produced two priests — one of whom is about to be ordained a bishop. And their father? He was a deacon. Read the remarkable story of Barry Knestout: Sometimes as…

Some very bright news during this dark season: vocations in Beantown are up. Way up. From the Boston Globe Enrollment at St. John’s Seminary has doubled over the last two years, a stunning turnabout for an institution that seemed to be spiraling toward closure in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The stone…

From our Down Under Desk, news of a married man (and convert) being ordained a Catholic priest: Former Anglican priest Bavin Clark, a married father of four, is to be ordained as a Catholic priest for the Brisbane archdiocese. The Wynnum Herald reports the novice deacon is living proof times are changing, when he becomes…
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