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One year after the pope mandated a “freeing up” of the Latin rite, some of its most strident supporters still aren’t happy. (Anyone who has ever sat on a parish committee or attended a PTA meeting or organized a car wash for the CYO — or even run a blog — will not be surprised…

A lot of Catholic voters are finding themselves torn by the issues involved in this presidential election — abortion being only one of them — and the New York Times offers this snapshot of people in the pews in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton: Scranton, a city dominated by the kind of white working-class Catholics…

A story out of Massachusetts offers a poignant new take on the priest shortage. Reuters reports: The sign outside St. James Church in the affluent Boston suburb of Wellesley sums up Catholicism’s deepening struggles in the United States. “Still searching for a priest,” it reads. Another sign affixed to its thick doors pleads: “Save St.…

A few days ago I posted the moving story of the father who died while trying to save his disabled son. Yesterday, the father’s funeral mass was celebrated, attended by some 70 priests, one of whom — another son — preached the homily. Click right here for the Washington Post account. Keep a Kleenex handy.
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