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A new religious community: We are not the problem, we are the solution," says Fr Thomas Coughlin, a deaf Honolulu priest who has founded the Dominican Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate with five other deaf men. Deaf since birth, it was Fr Coughlin’s lifelong dream to start a religious community where sign language is the…

In a long NYTimes Magazine profile  of a young actress, Vera Farmiga, we find this lovely quote from Farmiga, was was raised by Ukrainian Catholic parents, attended Ukrainian Catholic schools and didn’t speak English until she was 6: She took off her wig, exposing her short blond hair. Suddenly, she looked 10 years younger. “I…

A couple of parents of college freshmen post about orientation: Anthony Esolen posts at Mere Comments about the experience at Providence College, which is also where he teaches. Some of the normal, diversity, college life business, which prompts some of Esolen’s typically thoughtful meditation and then some good news: On the other hand … The…

The Lord’s Day always takes precedence of course, but September 3 remains the feast day of St. Gregory the Great, no matter what! Today at the Angelus, Pope Benedict spoke of Gregory: A pope as a model for public administrators? The suggestion came from Benedict XVI as he recalled the figure of St Gregory the…

Teresa at the Papa Ratzinger Forum has finished translating Benedict’s Q & A with priests from the diocese of Albano last Thursday. I’m going to do the broken record thing and tell you all to go read the whole exchange, and then tell you to pass it on to anyone in your circle who’s still…

No one knows exactly why Erickson, a not-very-religious dentist from East Cleveland who died in 1993, willed $370,000 to illuminate steeples visible along I-71 and I-90 in the downtown area. nonetheless… Drive west on I-90, and the night sky is dominated by the illuminated twin spires of St. Colman Catholic Church; from I-490, catch a…

On the tail of my reading of Spanish Rome, I’m searching the Internets for places to listen to Early Music online Here’s a links page, in case you’re interested – and I find BBC-3 Radio’s program "The Early Music Show" – and today’s program is on music from the Aragon court in Naples in the…

This is rather important and intriguing stuff. On Thursday, Pope Benedict met with parish priests from the Diocese of Albano (where Castel Gandalfo is located.) Teresa at PRF is in the process of translating the exchange, and I’m sure you’ll find much of interest here. I’m sort of on the edge of my seat for…

Either someone is totally stupid or desperately bored at work. H/T and thanks to reader John. Guess who?

I’ve finally read Fallen Order by Karen Liebreich. I had put it off because although the subject interested me very much, I thought the story she tells – how sexual abuse impacted the early years of the Piarist Order – would be just too depressing. Well, it is painful, just as all such stories, new…
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