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The people behind that catch-phrase are involved in a pro-life credit card. Really. H/T The Papist.

“The Birth of the Virgin Mary” by Esteban Murillo (Louvre, Paris) Father of mercy, give your people help and strength from heaven. The birth of the Virgin Mary’s Son was the dawn of our salvation. May this celebration of her birthday bring us closer to lasting peace. Grant this though our Lord Jesus Christ, Your…

How’s this for a high tech church?: A Catholic church is allowing worshippers to light candles in memory of their loved ones over the internet as it seeks to reach out to a broader community. The church of Santa Maria Regina Pacis di Ostia, 20 miles from the Vatican offers the novel scheme through its…

I finally went to see the Quentin Tarantino opus “Inglourious Basterds” today. I liked it. I didn’t love it, the way I loved “Pulp Fiction” and “Kill Bill,” but it had some typically Tarantinovian touches: cool music, crazy camera work, funky dialogue. And a lot of blood. A whole. Lot. Of blood. Having said that,…

A lot of Catholic schools are facing budgetary challenges, with lower enrollment and higher operational costs. But a school in upstate New York is becoming the first in the state to try something radical: a four-day school week. From the Buffalo News: The 145 students returning this week will be the first in the state…

That classic question was one of many highlights from this historic 1976 Labor Day reunion of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, after a long and much-publicized and gossiped-about breakup. I remember seeing this when it happened, back in the day when watching the Labor Day telethon was a way to kill time while waiting for…

Every time I see this picture, of Karol Wojtyla, I’m struck by the family resemblance. My father looked like that. And his father before him — a man who worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania along with countless other Slovak immigrants, and who named his daughter Anne, after the patroness of coal miners and…

A reader saw this post on cell phones and sent this my way: one Protestant congregation’s witty way of dealing with an all-too-common problem.

Parishes have been registering people the same way since, well, forever. But the people over at Aggie Catholic have stumbled on a 21st century solution to a 1st century problem: how to keep track of everyone. Take a look: As is the case with every church/parish, we all try to have those who attend church…

What happens when the son of one deacon meets the daughter of another deacon? Florida Catholic has the story: When Michael Fresneda arrived with his family to discuss the diaconate with Deacon Lazaro J. Ulloa at the Ulloa residence six years ago, there was no telling that their two eldest children, Stephanie M. Fresneda and…
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