After crinkling my nose and rolling my eyes over the McGreevey story, I was heartened to come across this sunny bit of news from the Sunshine State — one parish that has produced five, yes five, vocations: Beth Burwell wrestled with the question of whether she could forego having a husband or children. The answer…

From the “Too Weird To Ignore File,” the latest on “Gay American” and former New Jersey governor (and one time Catholic altar boy) Jim McGreevey: Former Gov. James E. McGreevey has started the process to become a priest in his newly adopted Episcopal faith and has been accepted into a three-year seminary program starting this…

Several days ago, a reader dropped me an e-mail about an upcoming art exhibit in Louisville, Kentucky. This looks like something truly special: an exhibit of the work of Frederick Hart, whose contributions to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the National Cathedral in Washington are nothing less than stunning. (That’s part of his famous “Ex…

Michael Gerson is a former Bush speechwriter responsible for some of the most elegant and eloquent words spoken after 9/11, including the still-potent speech the president delivered at the National Cathedral on 9/14. Gerson is now a columnist for the Washington Post. And he’s posted today a thoughtful and worth-reading column on Mother Teresa, which…

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