For decades, The Christophers have proudly and optimistically proclaimed that “it is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” They’ve shed that light, most famously, on television, with the long-running program, “Christopher Closeup.” Now, after six decades, it’s going off the air this Sunday. The press release follows: Long before televised mega-concerts…

The Bunny Hop is so last century. What wedding is complete these days without everyone doing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”? This routine below has been floating around the ‘net for several months. It’s a scream. Really. For a more recent variation, try the version below, with a thousand Filipino prisoners doing the same thing.

No sooner had I finished reading this piece in my diocesan newspaper, describing the orientation and training for visiting priests from Africa and Asia for the summer (including “accent reduction classes”), than I stumbled on this very good editorial via Catholic Onine. It comes to us from Our Sunday Visitor and reads, in part: Material…

Just weeks after Santa Barbara ordained an astonishing 60 deacons, now a splinter group has decided that’s not quite good enough: it’s “ordained” a batch of women as deacons, and one as a priest. The details are sketchy, which is what makes the whole exercise so bizarre: Sunday’s ordination, witnessed by more than 100 invited…

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