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When this item popped up on the wires the other day, it sounded like a clever idea: A new website was launched today which endeavors to ignite some Catholic enthusiasm and devotion onto your computer’s desktop. Catholic Desktops wants to help inspire your daily computer life by providing it with fun, cool and faithful computer…

Monday, there was still more fallout now from the pope’s decision to lift the excommunications of four SSPX bishops: A leading member of Germany’s Jewish community said Monday that Benedict XVI, the German-born pope and leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics worldwide, was sowing divisions and abetting far-right groups by rehabilitating four ultra-conservative…

Big news from northeastern Pennsylvania this weekend, as the bishop announced a massive restructuring that will affect every parishioner: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton is closing almost half of its churches, reducing the number of parishes from 209 to 118. In a statement, Bishop Joseph Martino said the restructuring plan affects every single parish…

If Internet buzz is to be believed, it sounds like that big house on Madison Avenue may soon have a new resident. Stay tuned. My money’s on Dolan.

This impressive story about young lay Catholics in Washington was published several days ago, and I’m finally getting around to reading and posting. Take a moment and read what these kids are doing. It’s something. Truly. A snip: Now for the peekaboo pumps: Do they stay? Or go? The missionary spins a shoe in her…

The minister who has led one of New York City’s most famous and storied churches retired on Sunday — and gave one last sermon. From the New York Times: At Marble Collegiate, the landmark church on Fifth Avenue and 29th Street, one of the oldest Protestant congregations in North America and, thanks to Norman Vincent…

I’m never complaining about my petty measly little life again. Watch this. And you’ll understand why. It’s full of courage, joy, hope — all those great things we Christians embrace and celebrate. But this young man lives them. Perfectly. Go ahead. Watch. And prepare to be amazed, moved, challenged and uplifted. Oh: and keep a…

A surprising number of deacons in my diocese are retired cops — an indication, perhaps, of how deeply the call to serve others filters through every aspect of their lives. Now a paper in upstate New York has taken a closer look at this phenomenon, and discovered that it’s not just a Catholic thing: Dressed…

Some noteworthy deacon news from the Catholic News Agency: they’ve launched a regular column by Deacon Patrick Moynihan: CNA is excited to introduce a new current events and political column written by Deacon Patrick Moynihan, a permanent deacon for the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois who spent ten years directing a mission school in Haiti. The…

…’cause this short video below is really exhausting. Astounding. But exhausting.
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