Fr. Jim Martin dropped me a line to let me know about this timely clip, from his DVD “Who Cares About the Saints?” It’s the portion that deals with St. Bernadette, and he recounts the story of the appearances of Our Lady of Lourdes (whose feast we celebrate tomorrow, February 11). Take a look:

Some interesting and timely news out of Rome early this morning: Two months after his trip to Africa, the Holy Father is scheduled to visit the Middle East where he will see the place of Jesus’ baptism, a mosque in Jordan, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, as well as Bethlehem and Nazareth. Though the trip…

An alert reader sent this my way: the poignant story of a baby in need of a miracle, and the namesake who just might provide it: Tracy and Tami Hauser are praying for a miracle and asking others to do the same. On Oct. 8, their seventh child, John Paul, was born with a rare…

“The last several weeks of curial chaos, confusion, and incompetence in the wake of the lifting of the excommunications of four Lefebvrist bishops have made clear just how dysfunctional the curia remains in terms of both crisis analysis and crisis management. A curia in which no one in authority had the sense to Google ‘Richard…

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