The prominent Washington museum is hosting an unusual exhibition that will be hitting the road later this year — and it sounds like something every Catholic should try to see. From Catholic San Francisco: A gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington has taken on a mystical quality in the form of an exhibit called…

Earlier, I posted this proposition from a deacon in Alaska, suggesting that deacons join bishops in public acts of penance. Now, another idea is taking root in the United Kingdom. From CNS: The bishops of England and Wales are asking Catholics to carry out acts of penance each Friday in May to help atone for…

That is just one part of a remarkable and inspiring address delivered recently by Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn from San Francisco. You can read the whole thing at America magazine, but here’s one nugget among many: I was a seminarian when Fulton Sheen was ordained a bishop. I was choir director for the Mass…

“For some of us, it might seem like we have come to the end of the world! For people of your age, however, any flight is an exciting prospect. But for me, this one was somewhat daunting! Yet the views afforded of our planet from the air were truly wondrous. The sparkle of the Mediterranean,…

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