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“I’m not sure if the marketing world took it from Jesus, but there are some basic principles that apply like: People buy from people they like. When you evangelize, you don’t want to come around with a stick and beat it into people. It just doesn’t work.” — U.S.-born Lithuanian Bishop-designate Gintaras Grusas, quoted here.…

How about sell ’em on eBay? One church set out to do that — but then came up with a better idea.  Check this out, below.  You can read more about it here.

Some interesting findings — and troubling ones, too — in this report: A name like Maria or Jose isn’t a solid clue anymore that the person who answers to it will worship in a Catholic church on Sundays. An Associated Press-Univision poll finds that younger Latinos, as well as those who speak more English than…

St. Lawrence by Deacon Lawrence Klimecki Today marks the feast of a patron for deacons, St. Lawrence, guardian of the treasures of the Church. St. Ambrose reports that when Deacon Lawrence was ordered by the prefect to turn over the Church’s wealth, he spent three days rounding up the city’s poor, the crippled, the blind…
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