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Many Catholic engaged couples have taken the FOCCUS test as part of marriage prep. Sister Barbara Markay developed that test, and was employed by the Diocese of Omaha’s Family Life Office. She was let go a few months ago, and now the reason is public: a bit of a misuse of funds: An arrest warrant…

Several music-related notes: Fr. Martin Fox had one more post last week from the Sacred Music Colloquium in DC. Jeffrey Tucker has a wrap-up post at New Liturgical Movement on the Colloquium. Read the comments as well. The conference was packed with 85 people, who stretched the limits of the facilities—a nice problem to have—and…

In Touchstone, Austin Ruse contemplates the mysteries of John Allen Allen has achieved something remarkable, though, and that is genuine dialogue among sometimes competing voices in the church. He has written often about the lamentable factions among the faithful, each with its own publications, conferences, sympathetic bishops, and so on. His observation is that these…

Cool Big Brother #1 brings you every single Burger King Superman toy, samples that his store received (it’s a store that doesn’t do Kids’ meals). Every single one. They just kept coming out of the backpack, one after the other, as 5-year old eyes got wider and wider. Christmas in June! Cool Big Brother #2…

Mass this past Sunday was a rather interesting experience. And in a good way. The church is old and un-renovated  – even the altar rail remains. The long-time pastor of the church before his death several years ago was a man not to be trifled with and indeed ran his parish his way. I imagine…

Superman Returns director Bryan Singer talks about his movie to Christianity Today: The guys who created Superman were Jewish, so I don’t think they intended him to be a Christ figure, but he seems to have kind of become that over the years. Singer: I don’t think Jesus … Well, I can’t get into religious…

A story from the Globe about final Masses at a couple of now-closed parishes.

Does anyone know if there are any facilities in London comparable to the many monasteries and convents one can stay in in Rome? I mean…I sort of doubt there are, but just checking before the traveling Son commits to a hostel..

Matthew of Holy Whapping took a journey to the Culinary Institute of America, formerly a Jesuit seminary. It’s a lovely meditation. Chatting with the waitress as she handed off a steaming and welcome plate of ravioli to me, the girl explained that somewhere in the bowels of the complex, overgrown with new pseudo-classical wings, was…

Cardinal Dias, the new Prefect for the Congregation of the Evangelisation of Peoples, says farewell to his diocese. Addressing around 4,000 people from different faiths gathered in the Jesuit College of St Peter for the event, the cardinal said India could make great strides ahead in spiritual progress, to be measured not so much by…
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