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Last month, the spotlight fell on Atlanta, and its bumper crop of priestly ordinations. This month, it’s Memphis. From Rocco’s place: See, while a handful of dioceses have larger groups of seminarians, even the smallest of those are exponentially more sizable than the West Tennessee church, which’ll ordain six new priests by summer’s end —…

It’s in Florida, at one of my favorite churches: Mary Queen of the Universe Shrine (a stone’s throw from Disney World.) Details, from Florida Catholic: Good things come in threes, including basilicas within Florida. The Sunshine State will be home to the 63rd basilica in the United States when Orlando’s National Shrine of Mary, Queen…

Periodically, I’ve posted stories of father-son clergy members, where dad’s a permanent deacon and the son is a priest. (I’d love to find that situation reversed — what a story that would be!) Well, here’s one more, from Florida Catholic, which also relates how the team pictured above — the Thesings of Miami — shared…

Um, yes. That would be St. Gabriel Possenti — if a group of “handgunners” gets its way. CNS posted a brief item about their efforts to have him declared their patron saint, and that led me to this website — gunsaint.com — which tells his story and provides some interesting links. I was especially struck…
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