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When everything is so confusing and no one really explains things to you the way you need to hear them: So, Joseph comes up to me today, not unhappily, but just a touch worried. "How am I going to know what room to go to?" "What?" "At school." "But it will be the same room…

This past week and weekend, an Australian delegation was in Rome to receive the World Youth Day cross from the Cologne contingent, and receive the Pope’s blessing and listen to his encouraging words as they embark on a very busy two years. The logo was unveiled today: Here’s the official website And here are several…

An unusual attraction in Buenos Aires: Not quite Disney World: Jesus Christ appeared ever so slowly from the bowels of the plastic mountain in a blast of the Hallelujah Chorus. He emerged vertically, little by little, not so much like a phoenix from the ashes as, well, like Jesus rising from the dead. With outstretched…

A New Orleans saga When Hughes re-consecrated St. Augustine on Saturday, he said he would examine the parish’s progress after 18 months to determine if it could avoid consolidation with a neighboring parish. Hughes agreed to reopen St. Augustine after negotiating with parishioners who had protested the church’s closing. St. Augustine, founded in 1841 by…

The numbers tell the story in England: Although there was a modest recovery last year, when the numbers rose to 18, insiders concede that it was probably a blip, rather than any upsurge, following the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Vocations to monastic orders fell from 107 in 1982 to 52 in 1990 and…

The People’s Republic of China with a newly-adopted daughter, Brazil with children from an orphanage….Byzantine Rite…all that and more in the What did you hear thread below – worth a read, and worth adding to as well!

Bishop Cunneen says semi-nude jelly wrestling is an odd way to commemorate Easter.

It’s from blogging Ohio padre Fr. Martin Fox, posted below, but I thought we all could answer it up here: ….does anyone care to comment on how long you think the priest should preach on Palm Sunday, given the long readings? Is shorter better, or longer, so you can sit awhile after so much standing?…

The Roaming Roman posts here weekly Lenten offering – lots to see and read about. This morning’s Mass at St. Peter’s, various other stational Masses around, and her impressions of the film Into Great Silence

Let’s see…I read this one on the way from Knoxville to Columbia. As a whole, I liked it very much, except for the yearning to just get the heck back to Italy that it watered. What we have here, in short, is a combined life of St. Francis/travelogue. Francke and her husband tried to visit…
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