This weekend, my parish, Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, is celebrating its feast day, as it does every year, on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. This year marks the 90th anniversary of the parish, and the 80th year of the school. Saturday night, we had a large concelebrated mass with retired Brooklyn Bishop…

There’s nothing quite like a good vocation story. Sometimes, when you least expect it, your spiritual cell phone rings and you’re astonished to find that God is on the line. He can call when you least expect it. Case in point: an Indianapolis paper has a nifty little interview with a widower who has embarked…

In another sign of the Church’s growing Hispanic population in the United States, more and more dioceses are looking for vocations south of the border. The AP reports: They’re in a new country, working a new job and living a new life, but for the Latin American immigrants who come to the United States every…

The picture below was posted at David Kuo’s Beliefnet blog, J-Walking. Overlooking its artistic merits (or lack thereof), I was curious to see what others thought. I can appreciate the point it makes, but I have misgivings about the theology behind it. Are we to wash the feet of everyone, even those whose stated desire…

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