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If you’re like most people, you want to help others, you want to be a faithful disciple and do as Jesus commands – to love, to serve. But you might be put off by the bigness of certain charities. They serve their purpose, sure, but you want to make sure that your money and assistance…

A very nice story from the Enquirer on a seminarians’ basketball team – the Minor Prophets Of the five Minor Prophets from the local area, three went to public high schools, one was home-schooled and one went to Elder. Many of the players have dated, owned homes, and worked in other professions. There’s a former…

The Cincinnati Post picks up on the ongoing tensions between the Diocese of Covington and Northern Kentucky Right to Life, which was founded by a former bishop of Covington, as it happens: Recently, in full-page daily newspaper ads, both organizations made their case in what was the latest round in what has been a difficult…

Writer Sharan Newman has a nice takedown of Thomas Cahill’s latest, in Christian Century: Mysteries of the Middle Ages is part of Cahill’s "hinges of history" series, which began with How the Irish Saved Civilization. His laudable goal is to demonstrate how times and places denigrated by recent historians have contributed a great deal to…

Pulled from the comments below, from Fr. Totten: I am pastor of a parish which has a small but thriving Catholic School and several faithful Catholic homeschool families.  I would be interested to hear from other priests who find themselves in similar situations.  How do they provide for the needs of the homeschoolers without undermining…

Edwards stands by his bloggers. John Edwards said Thursday that he was offended by the “intolerant language” of two employees of his presidential campaign, in writings on their personal Web logs, but he said they would remain with the campaign. “They have both assured me that it was never their intention to malign anyone’s faith,…

Jim Myers, assistant editor of the Colorado Springs diocesan paper, has been in Guatemala this week, and is blogging on it: While most Americans were watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, I was in Guatemala on a mission awareness trip for the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging, a 25-year-old charity started by Catholic laypeople…

Pope Benedict, today, with words to bishops: A bishop can turn to Catholic lay movements not only when he needs an organized group to implement his pastoral plans, but also when he needs to care for his own soul, Pope Benedict XVI said. When a movement gathers its "bishop-friends" together, it helps them experience "a…

A fascinating little serendipitous moment…so I’m looking through email (still so, so behind) and I run across T-Matt’s latest column, which is about Dawn Eden’s Thrill of the Chaste: The irony, said Eden, is that many clergy seem to think it would be a good thing if singles kept playing the spot-the-hot-date game in church.…

…in Italy? Sandro Magister reports: First, he looks at various surveys from the past attempting to gauge Mass attendance levels, quotes the rather optimistic words of Cardinal Ruini and Pope Benedict on the vitality of the Italian church, and then examines a new study, done in the Patriarchate of Venice in 2004 and 2005. The…
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