This was baptism Sunday for the deacon. I rotate baptisms with two priests, so I do them four times a year. This was by far the loudest, biggest mob I’ve encountered. Let me break it down for you. Number of [...]
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This was baptism Sunday for the deacon. I rotate baptisms with two priests, so I do them four times a year. This was by far the loudest, biggest mob I’ve encountered. Let me break it down for you. Number of [...]
Anyone who has planned, witnessed, catered, photographed, presided over or rehearsed a modern wedding ceremony needs to read this on-target assessment of the modern American wedding. This gives a good sense of why so many priests I know hate weddings. [...]
[My diocese, like many, has instituted new guidelines for receiving Holy Communion, amid growing concerns about the H1N1 virus. One of those is the suggestion that Catholics, at least until the spring, only receive in the hand, not on the [...]
Incredibly, this once heavily Catholic city only has one Catholic high school left. And TIME magazine finds out why: Lunch period at an inner-city all-boys school is an event associated with the sounds of chaos, not classical music. And yet [...]
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One day more
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Meet Montana's married priest
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Big day in the Big Easy: 10 new deacons
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Gaudete! And let's break out a carol or two...
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