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The singing sensation returned to “Britain’s Got Talent” this weekend — and made it to the next round of the talent contest with her rendition of “Memory.” It’s a little rocky at the beginning, but she soon finds her footing and marches confidently to the soaring, inevitably rousing end (complete with halo lighting effect!) Check…

Cardinal Sean O’Malley congratulates Fr. Sean Carey during his ordination to the priesthood yesterday. Carey is one of only 11 deaf men in the nation to be ordained a priest. You can read more about Carey and the ordination here. Photo by Wendy Maeda/Boston Globe.

They ordained a bumper crop of priests in the Archdiocese of Newark yesterday — and with one interesting footnote: most were foreign-born. Take a look: The Archdiocese of Newark ordained 13 priests yesterday, a number believed to be the highest of any Roman Catholic diocese in the United States this year. Ten of the men,…

From your Beast 🙂 23 years? Already?

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This just in, from beautiful downtown Brooklyn: a first glimpse at the newest of New York’s deacons, the class of 2009. Below, scenes from an ordination. I’ll post a link to the Tablet article when it’s published next week. Meantime, blessings and congratulations and — as ever — ad multos annos! UPDATE: Must be something…

I’m off to the diaconate ordination at St. James Cathedral. Will post pictures when I return! Woo hoo!

“We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature.” — Retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland,writing in his new book, “A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church” UPDATE: The Anchoress has posted her own sage thoughts on Weakland, to wit: Weakland seems a troubled man and a weak…

This week, U.S. News & World Report caught up with Newt Gingrich, who spoke at length about his conversion to Catholicism just before Easter: Part of what led to my conversion is the first time we [he and Callista] went to St. Peter’s together. It’s St. Peter’s. I mean, you stand there and you think,…

The leading archbishop who described President Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame as “an extreme embarrassment” isn’t saying that anymore. Quite the opposite, in fact. Cardinal Francis George is now lauding one portion of the president’s speech, on the subject of conscience clauses. Below is a news release from the USCCB: Cardinal Francis George of Chicago,…
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