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Think giving up chocolate is enough? From Canada comes this story of a priest who is doing something truly counter-cultural — and daunting — for Lent: Eleven days into a 48-day fast, Jesuit Father John McCarthy was feeling pretty good. “I haven’t noticed anything yet, other than a bit of weight loss,” McCarthy told The…

A: “I would say the opposite. I think that the reality that is most effective, the most present and the strongest in the fight against AIDS, is precisely that of the Catholic Church, with its programs and its diversity. I think of the Sant’Egidio Community, which does so much visibly and invisibly in the fight…

That’s the pithy wisdom of Lisa Simpson, summing up the problems between the Irish. One last St. Pat’s nugget:

How did you spend St. Patrick’s Day? Whatever you did, I doubt it was anything like this: Father Maurice Chase celebrated his 90th birthday on St. Patrick’s Day by giving away green — and plenty of it. The Catholic priest took $15,000 in cash to Skid Row and doled it out to hundreds of the…

Information is scarce, but it seems the leader of the free world had a chat today with the leader of the U.S. bishops. From CNS: President Barack Obama met for half an hour March 17 with Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the White House and the USCCB…

The Anchoress has posted her own link of great Irish contributions to the world — including Michael Flatley. Good as Flatley may be, I have a certain affection for the version below.

This evidently began running today in Kansas City. H/T to the Catholic Key.

A l’il bit o‘ green for ye. With Debbie Harry, no less. Enjoy.

A reader sent along this piece of news: Randall Terry, Operation Rescue Founder, led a delegation of nine pro-life leaders in an unprecedented series of meetings with Vatican officials from March 2-6 in Rome. (Names below.) The reactions ranged from shock to heartfelt agreement. The purpose was to beg Vatican officials to intervene decisively in…

This showed up this afternoon in the comments of a post from nearly two years ago: I’m a Catholic, my fiance is not religious. He never had any sort of mention of God in his life and doesn’t seem to care much about it. We have decided to have a Catholic wedding and will be…
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