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It used to be the Maytag repairman had the loneliest job on earth. Now, according to this report from Connecticut, he may have some competition: The rectory is very peaceful — a little too peaceful, if the Rev. Joseph Looney is being honest about it. Looney has been stationed at the Church of the Nativity…

Those clever people in Britain have devised a new way to encourage vocations: priestly pin-ups. Or, more accurately, clerical calendars: Twelve Catholic priests have swapped their pulpits for favourite pastimes in a calendar designed to try to recruit young men to the priesthood. The priests, from the Diocese of Leeds, are pictured in an array…

One of my annual pleasures, on the last Sunday of the year, is sitting down and laughing until my sides hurt from reading Dave Barry’s annual round-up of the year-in-review. If anyone missed it this year, it’s at the link. Here’s a choice nugget, from his preamble: It was a year that strode boldly into…

We continue to live in an age of martyrdom. That much seems clear from this succinct report by CWN: At least 21 Catholic priests, deacons, religious, and seminarians died for the faith in 2007, the Fides news service reports. Each year Fides, an arm of the Congregation for Evangelization, compiles a full list of the…
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