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A really interesting looking new show in the works for PBS – Grace Before Meals, featuring a priest from the Archdiocese of Baltimare, Father Leo Patalinghug, going into families’ homes and talking with them about building up family life via cooking. Several bloggers have caught this – including Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex and Immaculate Direction, at which Fr.…

A moving post at Crunchy Cons – from a Georgia priest, on a funeral in his parish this week.

Details at Whispers Msgr Daniel Flores, rector of the cathedral of his native diocese of Corpus Christi and vice-rector of St Mary’s Seminary in Houston, as auxiliary bishop to Cardinal Adam Maida of Detroit. Born in August, 1961, the 45 year-old bishop-elect becomes the US hierarchy’s youngest member. Via Michael, a church in the Archdiocese…

…stay for the clips. Well, not exactly "quips." Just fine writing and cultural insight over at critic and biographer Terry Teachout’s blog. That’s not news to many of you, but what you might not have noticed is that Terry has a very lengthy sidebar of  links to archival video clips of various luminaries – mostly…

A story about a Kansas City couple, sustained by faith and love, who have been caring for their bed-ridden and severely disabled son for 52 years. For fifty-two years, Ted and Herminia Reyes have cared for their son like a baby. That’s because Ricky, who is now a middle-aged man, has been bedridden his entire…

Jen Ambrose, despite being in China, offers a helpful Pittsburgh Sports/Catholic roundup

Willliam Kennedy (author of the Ironwood trilogy) reviews Cormac McCarthy’s latest in the NYTimes – an end-times/apocalyptic/messianic vision. There’s really no decent way to cut and past the review, though. So go for it. (And, as Matthew LIckona points out in the comments – Kennedy actually relates much of the plot in the review –…

From Inside the Vatican: In a remarkable historical find, testimony has emerged revealing that, in 1941, Pope Pius XII received a German Jewish visitor at the Vatican who was seeking help for certain Jews who were being held in an Italian internment camp. After welcoming the young man and promising him help, Pius told him…

Fr. Neuhaus on Cardinal Egan, in First Things. Cardinal Egan on Cardinal Egan, in Catholic New York Gerald at Closed Cafeteria notes Cardinal Mahony’s appearance on last night’s South Park. It’s kind of hard to make sense of. Well, sort of not. Catholic League has not been heard from on this one yet.  A write-in…

One of the other referenda of interest on election day will be South Dakota’s Referred Law 6 – the abortion ban in that state. Yesterday, a new bishop of Sioux Falls was ordained, and he something to say: Bishop Paul Swain came out swinging Thursday. Within an hour of being ordained a Roman Catholic bishop…
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