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Taking health care services to rural PA Mobile health units, like the Rendu Services van, are one way of bringing basic health care to some of those underserved regions. The service, a mission of the Daughters of Charity, is named for Sister Rosalie Rendu, an 18th-century French nun who devoted her life to the poor.…

That’s how much it’s estimated "Vatican-related" agencies have made available for relief of the tsunami victims. How Caritas is helping victims of current flooding in Pakistan and India

…is spending time talking about labels, coaltions and ideologies, as Fr. McBrien does here, fretting about where the "center" in Catholicism has moved to. As he has been for the last three weeks in his columns. Buy a ticket on the clue train, which is called: THE WHO CARES EXPRESS There’s a hurricane striking Mexico,…

From Mississippi: Over the last 30 years, Orthodox churches in the southern United States have multiplied from a handful of congregations located mainly in Florida and Texas to more than 60 churches and missions stretching from Virginia to New Mexico. "In the Florida area most churches developed from the families from the North," said the…

No, not me. Mary of Veritatis Splendor writes that she would like to help a priest friend of hers, now pastor of two rural parishes, in need of silver chalices to replace glass. She is looking for someplace that sells quality used/antique chalices, reasonably. She mentioned this place, but said it was expensive. I’m pretty…

Wondering who the proprietor of this blog is? Well, just click through the birthday presents that her husband, who knows her quite well, gave her. This should pretty much get it done: This, this, this, this, and this. And about that Lucinda Williams album. (the live one)  I’ve seen her in concert three times, (the…

Long-time readers know of our zoo adventures around the country, beginning right here in The Fort. Our zoo is relatively small, but quite good and child-friendly (i.e. exhausting but not overwhelming) Snagging ourselves a very reasonably priced family membership we have a handy energy outlet all day, 7 days a week, just 3 miles down…

From Rich Leonardi…a good church in Chicago, with a decent schola being a plus. Of course. I recommended this place, but if there’s someplace closer to where he is this weekend, he’d appreciate the recommendation.

A story on the Spanish-language services at Osteen’s Houston church His (Not Osteen – the Spanish-language pastor’s) sermons, he said, are geared for a Hispanic audience, with references to soccer or Telemundo television stars. Witt has even shown clips from one of comedian Mario Moreno Cantinflas’ films. Giancarlo Giraldo, 24, was raised in the Catholic…

An obituary for Dame Cicely Saunders, a founder of the hospice movement. Wesley Smith remarks: Ralph Nader once said that it is a sign of our times that Jack Kevorkian is the most famous doctor in the world. It should have been Dame Saunders. May she rest in peace.
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