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They buried France’s beloved Cardinal Lustiger today, and Rocco has the scoop on the funeral. France’s president was there, and the former First Lady Bernadette Chirac, and Lech Walesa, among others. His piece concludes with this haunting quote, from the plaque that will be placed in Notre Dame — the late cardinal’s message to the…

A new study is out on the American Catholic Church — or, more specifically, Catholics who are American — and Andrew Greeley has donned his sociologist cap to ruminate on it in the current issue of America. The study is called “American Catholics Today: New Realities of Their Faith and Their Church,” and it was…

Some of us can remember the controversy that ensued when the Church removed St. Christopher from the calendar many years ago — more or less saying “We’re not sure if he existed, so we’re not calling him a saint anymore.” But old habits die hard. And some are now coming back. This item appeared in…

My brother deacon and classmate, Deacon Tony, has a great post up about one of the patrons of deacons, St. Lawrence. Check it out and then ponder the portrait below, one of my favorite images of this remarkable saint: The print is by graphic artist Lawrence Klimecki, who is himself a candidate for diaconate ordination…
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