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Brother deacon and blogger supreme, Scott Dodge, from Salt Lake City, unearthed this surprising nugget, the last part of W.H. Auden’s “For the Time Being, A Christmas Oratorio”, whose opening lines pretty much sum up the bittersweet mood of this particular time: Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree,Putting the decorations…

After a long, long, long wait — 46 months — Detroit will be getting a new bishop to replace retiring Cardinal Adam Maida (who put in his papers during the papacy of John Paul II!). The Motor City’s new guy is Bishop Allen Vigneron of Oakland (but originally from Detroit) and you can read all…

Look no further. My siblings in Catholic broadcasting, Catholic TV in Boston, are now airing every Sunday the mass from Notre Dame in Indiana. The basilica is stunning, the liturgy is reverent, the music is magnificent — and there’s nothing like seeing lots and lots of young people happily attending mass and serving at the…

Over at Whispers, Rocco has posted a poignant tribute to a priest who died on New Year’s Eve, while trying to move a tree that had fallen during a windstorm. His name was Fr. Michael Kelly, 53, from the diocese of Arlington: A Civil War reenactor known as the “Flying Priest,” the loss of Kelly…
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