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The Vatican’s recent pronouncement about end-of-life issues has raised new questions, and posed new challenges, for a lot of Catholics. And Robert McClory has decided to take a hard look at them in the Chicago Tribune: For severely ill patients, particularly Catholic ones, the choice of hospital has suddenly become more complicated. Following a declaration…

How’s the priest shortage affecting the Deep South? A paper in Mississippi takes a look at one parish in one diocese, where lay ministers are taking charge and pointing to a new way of church management: Dressed in a knee-length black skirt and tweed blazer, Pam Minninger stood at the entrance of St. Joseph Catholic…

It’s not often that you stumble on a journalist of deep faith, writing about that faith honestly and forthrightly in the secular media. But this comes to us from Tracy Grant, the Weekend editor of the Washington Post — a heartfelt meditation on making a deal with God: I’ve started hanging out at the Cathedral…

Cash or charge? More and more parishes are doing this, and now there’s an item in a Palm Springs, California paper about it: giving parishioners the option of contributing via credit card: You swipe a credit card to buy furniture, clothes and even fast food. Now some local churchgoers can swipe for their offering, too.…
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