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In a followup to news I posted a couple weeks ago, it looks like Ireland’s religious orders will indeed be coughing up more money to compensate victims of sex abuse. From CNS: The 18 Irish religious orders implicated in decades of abuse of thousands of children in their care have agreed to increase their contribution…

Is there any better way to mark the end of another week? I don’t think so.

That was Cardinal Egan’s wry nickname for the “Catholic Guy” on Sirius Radio, Lino Rulli, who now also works as a contributor to “Currents.” Here, for a drizzly Friday: Lino’s piece from our first episode of “Currents,” wherein he meets the staff. Your Humble Blogger makes a cameo. And here’s some encouraging news for those…

And the ordinations keep rolling in. Philadelphia just added more deacons to the roster: The reading from Acts, chapter 6 at the May 30 Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul was most appropriate. “… So they chose Stephen, a man filled with faith and the Holy Spirit, also Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor,…

Big news in the media world, as the nation’s largest Catholic publisher announces that it has absorbed another publishing house: Catholic publisher Our Sunday Visitor Inc. says it has acquired Harcourt Religion Publishers from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in an announcement Wednesday. Huntington-based Our Sunday Visitor, which…

If you think confession is free psychiatric advice, think again: Confessing in the Catholic church has long provided material for Hollywood screen-writers, with a dark wooden booth, a priest’s stern silhouette glimpsed through a screen and the uttered phrase “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” But, according to the Vatican, real life confessions are…

But watch. It’s spectacular.

The venerable Mike “Googling God” Hayes (from Busted Halo) popped over to “Currents” this afternoon, to be interviewed for a program we’re airing on June 10. The subject was youth ministry, and keeping the young in the faith. He was joined by Marilyn Santos, from our diocesan office of faith formation. Our talented TD Gina…

If anyone missed it — I know you were all glued to your computer screens last night (not) — you can catch part of yesterday’s debut of “Currents” at our website. Click on the screens to watch individual pieces. We hope to have a more extensive website running by fall, with complete episodes archived. But…

Many readers may be familiar with Laser Monks, the innovative and popular ministry of some Trappists out in Wisconsin. Now, the New York Times looks at the lay women who make that ministry hum: At the ringing of a bowl-shaped bell, five monks at a remote monastery congregated in the chapel here for the fourth…
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