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For the first Friday of Lent, when so many parishes will begin praying the Stations of the Cross, here’s a glimpse at one man’s vision of that seismic event — and a little piece of movie history, to boot. It’s the very first trailer for “The Passion of the Christ,” back when it was still…

Some interesting numbers here on how Catholics voted in some of Tuesday’s big primaries: Catholic voters backed Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona and Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton of New York in many Super Tuesday presidential primaries and caucuses for their respective parties, according to news reports. Deal W. Hudson of InsideCatholic.com reported that exit…

Nothing, I think, is quite as rare as an ordination during Lent. But that’s not stopping the gang down in Atlanta, where a new class of deacons is about to be ordained tomorrow. From the Georgia Bulletin: There will soon be more permanent deacons serving Catholics in the Archdiocese of Atlanta than there are priests.…

Now, for some news from my own backyard: word that the sainthood cause has been opened for the founder of Brooklyn’s first black parish. From CNS and Ed Wilkinson, editor of the Brooklyn Tablet: The process to declare a former Brooklyn pastor a saint has begun. The name of Msgr. Bernard Quinn, founding pastor of…
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