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A great video that just may open eyes — and hearts. I won’t tell you what it’s about. Just take a minute and watch. H/T Happy Catholic. Into the Oneby mavocation

Well, that didn’t take long. From the AP: A telegenic Miami priest who left the Catholic Church amid an uproar over published photos of him kissing his girlfriend on the beach made the relationship official Tuesday, marrying the woman he was involved with for about two years. The Rev. Alberto Cutie and Ruhama Canellis were…

This incredible, beautiful video will make your day. It might even change it. Take a few minutes and watch. You may never think of your life — or a simple game of golf — the same way. (There’s a great homily in this story, I think.) H/T to New Advent.

Not far from the studios and Spago, cloistered Dominican sisters are busily baking bread and praying for the world. Who knew? The Tidings offers a rare glimpse behind the grill: Since 1934, the Monastery of the Angels has been operating three stoplights above Hollywood Boulevard – quietly, until a couple months ago when the Los…

A thoughtful reader sent me the picture above, from the diaconate ordination for the Diocese of Orlando this past weekend. Fourteen permanent deacons and one transitional one received the sacrament of Holy Orders at Mary Queen of the Universe Shrine (one of my favorite places to worship, by the way), just a stone’s throw from…

Seems the pope has a new doctor, according to CNS: Pope Benedict XVI has chosen as his new personal physician a cardiologist with strong ties to the Vatican. Dr. Patrizio Polisca, a professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Rome’s Tor Vergata University and president of the commission of physicians who serve as consultants to the Congregation…

A reader sent this my way: a report about a fairly huge Corpus Christi procession in a corner of the country that’s not noted for being Catholic. From Washington state: Kimberly Daniels was busy watering her garden Sunday when hundreds of Catholics walked by her Veneta Avenue home. She watched as choir boys holding a…

The Blessing of the Animals is not uncommon around the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, in October. But in the city named for the saint, they didn’t want to wait for the fall: If Ursula could talk, she’d probably tell you she hath forsaken tennis shoes for Jesus. Resting obediently on the floor of…

A Catholic couple in the UK gave birth to sextuplets last month — the first set in the UK in more than a quarter century — and, according to news reports, they were told the best thing to do would be to abort some of the fetuses: Nuala Conway, 26, and her husband Austin, from…

Back in the 1970s, when there was a lot of liturgical innovation going on, Dorothy Day invited a young priest to celebrate mass at the Catholic Worker. He decided to do something that he thought was relevant and hip. He asked Dorothy if she had a coffee cup he could borrow. She found one in…
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