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It’s Saturday night and this just seems like the right time for a little of this:

“I figured, ‘I’m a bishop — I’m not going to tell them to attack Notre Dame with a pitchfork.’ I’m going to tell them to go pray.” — Orlando Bishop Thomas Wenski,discussing a Mass of Reparation he plans to celebrate over the Notre Dame mess.

Over the past several days, two words sent alarm around the world: swine flu. Just scroll through the articles about it online, and you see words like “pandemic,” “epidemic,” “outbreak,” “quarantine.” What cropped up unexpectedly in Mexico has now popped up in many corners of the world. You’ve seen the pictures of people wearing masks…

Well, what do you know? I popped over to The Crescat and discovered that I’m one of the nominees for the venerable Cannonball Award. Voting begins May 3. I’m humbled beyond words. (Do I get a discount at Denny’s or anything?)

And now for something completely different: spiritual advice for the Facebook generation, from Ireland: The leader of Ireland’s four million Roman Catholics has urged social-network users to start sending daily prayers by text, Twitter or e-mail. “Make someone the gift of a prayer through text, twitter or e-mail every day,” Cardinal Sean Brady said. “Such…

This seems a fitting and timely memorial to honest labor, on this day devoted to the patron saint of workers.

It’s that time of year again: ordination season. Soon, men will find themselves face down on marble floors, a storm of saintly invocations raining down on them. We have three men about to be ordained priests here in Brooklyn, and about two dozen heading into the diaconate — praise God! (It’s the first deacon class…

“Throughout this month of May, let us offer our pleas to the Mother of God with greater devotion and confidence, so that we may obtain her favor and her blessings. Even if the grave sins of men provoke God’s justice and merit His just punishments, we must not forget the he is “the Father of…

It was only a matter of time before someone commissioned a poll on the Obama/Notre Dame controversy — and now the good people at Pew have done it. Take a look: Most Catholics who have heard about the issue support the University of Notre Dame’s decision to invite President Barack Obama to speak and receive…

Stranger things have happened. But reports from Italy say the man who attempted to assassinate the pope has converted to Catholicism. From the website CathNews: In a letter written from a Turkish prison, Mehmet Ali Agca, author of the failed attempt against Pope John Paul II in 1981, claims to have renounced Islam and embraced…
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