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The idea of Bob Dylan doing a Christmas album is weird enough. But the first video from it?? Take a look. Ho ho ho.

This stunning image is from the Catholic Key blog shows the massive eucharistic procession of 22,000 high school students, following Christ through downtown Kansas City yesterday, for the National Catholic Youth Conference. Their motto this year — fittingly, for the weekend of the feast of Christ the King — is “Christ Reigns.”  H/T New Advent…

Going through old boxes, I stumbled on a 33 rpm recording of this TV special from way-back-when: “Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall.” I have fond memories of hearing it on my parents’ big boxy wooden stereo in our living room when I was growing up. I decided to dig around and, lo and behold,…

Time will tell if it will actually have any impact, but the significance of this piece of news can’t be overstated: More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration Friday reaffirming their opposition to abortion and gay marriage and pledging to protect religious freedoms. The…

In this Year for Priests, few stories could be more surprising, or inspiring, than this one, about a priest named Msgr. Leon Dobosiewicz, from Florida Catholic: At 90, the monsignor, who is parochial vicar at Holy Spirit Parish in Lake Wales and celebrates Mass at the Mission of St. Leo the Great in Nalcrest, doesn’t…

It didn’t get much attention, but news moved yesterday that a beloved prize-winning Catholic author won another prize: Among the National Book Awards winners named on Wednesday night whose names may elude you, one honoree you’ve almost certainly heard of is Flannery O’Connor. In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, her collection…

The intense debate over the same-sex marriage bill in Washington, DC has now led to talk that maybe the two sides can come to a compromise. From the Washington Post: Some D.C. Council members and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton are reaching out to the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington to see whether they can find a…

I saw this item over at the America magazine blog “In All Things,” and thought it offered some interesting food for thought — particularly since it comes from my friend Sr. Camille D’Arienzo, RSM, who works with inmates on death row. She dropped a note to the editor of the magazine making this point: Attorney…

Believe it or not, it’s made of Legos. Really. See below.     

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development has gotten a lot of criticism of late (including, most prominently, from EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo). Now the bishop who oversees it is defending the organization: The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ subcommittee which oversees the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has defended the program against what he called…
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