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A few more shots of the new studio facility for NET in Brooklyn, then and now. (I know this fascinates you, doesn’t it?) There is still more work to do; the studio itself is an empty shell, awaiting lights and sets, there’s a small chapel that is unfinished (and where we will reserve the Blessed…

The good folks at ZENIT have posted the second part of the interview with the Big Littleton family. A snip: James and Kathleen Littleton tell about their experience of raising obedient children, as well as children who know how to think critically and are open to a vocation to the priesthood or consecrated life. The…

If you love “Peanuts” — and who doesn’t? — you’ll find this item from Wednesday’s Times especially fascinating: In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. “Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.”…

A posting by the Catholic News Service looks at that question — and finds some intriguing theories: Statistics leave no doubt that the number of women religious has dropped sharply over the last 50 years, but there is an ongoing debate over the reasons for the decline. The question surfaced recently when L’Osservatore Romano, the…

My new office. If I behave, they may give me a chair. Actually, this was taken in our still-under-construction office space back around Thanksgiving. Things have improved since then. I now have a floor. We move into our new studio facilities on Friday. Praise God.

The words of that old spiritual rang in my ears as I read this delightful item from Fr. James Martin about his newest “Friend” on Facebook. I’m still waiting for Him to ping me.

In New York City today, they crowded into the Church of the Immaculate Conception to bid farewell to Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. One of the people there was Fr. Frank Mann, of the Diocese of Brooklyn — a friend and colleague of mine and, it turns out, a man who for many years had Neuhaus…

It’s National Vocations Awareness Week, and out in Erie, Pennsylvania, some are speculating that the economic downturn could mean a surprising uptick in vocations to religious life: The Rev. Edward Lohse said it’s too early to tell if America’s rough economy will mean an upswing in the number of Catholic priests and women religious. But…

Yesterday, I posted an item about how the economy is affecting private schools and families. Later in the day, that news hit close to home. From the New York Times: The Diocese of Brooklyn has proposed closing 14 elementary schools at the end of the current academic year, a plan that would mean that one…
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