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Incredibly, a grade-schooler in Indiana can name every one of them, in six minutes. From Today’s Catholic News: Eleven-year-old John Paul Fitzmaurice has completed a project so difficult that few lay men and women even attempt it. The Granger boy has committed the names of all 265 popes to memory. From St. Peter to Benedict…

Some advice to all those young priests being ordained this year: save your stipends. From the AP: Clergy seem an unlikely group to be facing a retirement security crisis. They generally are looked up to by their parishioners as wise and frugal. Their pay, although modest, is enough to get by on. And they typically…

I asked, you answered. A sharp-eyed reader responded to my bleg for a snapshot of the Archdiocese of New York’s new deacons. Here it is, below. “Not the best picture,” my e-mailer confessed, “but it shows everyone.”  Thank you!

You never can be sure what God has up His sleeve. Consider, for example, the remarkable stories of the two men who were recently ordained priests for Salt Lake City. The saga of Fr. Tai Nguyen really is something: Nguyen, 44, was reared in a devout Vietnamese family. His grandparents were killed by the Viet…
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