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(This Sunday morning, my parish is installing new ushers, EMHCs and lectors. This is the homily for that mass.) This Sunday, we mark a special feast in the church calendar, honoring two pillars of the faith, Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The readings we just heard are sobering reminders of what these men went through…

The diaconate is becoming such a presence in the Church, even the secular media are sitting up and taking notice. This, from the Savannah Morning News, in Georgia: The Rev. Bienvenido Perez Jr. assists at Mass every weekday at the chapel at St. Joseph’s Hospital. As a Roman Catholic clergyman, Perez preaches, counsels, visits the…

…to which we should reply, I guess, “And also with you.” The tee shirt design above is part of a wry and at times irreverent gallery of spiritually-inspired designs on display over at Beliefnet — and it even includes a few for non-believers. You can check out some others. My personal non-Christian favorite is below.…

Big news out of the Vatican this morning, as one of America’s leading canon lawyers — and one of its most prominent lightning rods — gets a promotion. From Rocco: This morning, Pope Benedict named Archbishop Raymond Burke of St Louis as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura — in effect, the church’s “chief justice” as…
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