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This moving video was created for a confirmation class, and comes to us from Frank Weathers, one of the contributors to the terrific blog “Why I Am Catholic.” So: why am I Catholic? Cue the music, crank up the speakers, and enjoy.

Here’s something inspiring for you. A priest visiting friends in a far-removed Nigerian village last year found himself unexpectedly celebrating Mass in a Muslim home. He writes: Within a short time of my arrival, news went around the community that a priest was visiting, and people started coming around to visit with me. Some of…

Grim numbers from Ohio point to a larger trend in the American Church: Almost two out of three Catholics in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky won’t go to church this weekend to celebrate Mass, an event they have been told since childhood is the center of their spiritual lives. The church’s most recent count of…

Two Belgian bishops are openly questioning whether celibacy should be mandatory for priests: The bishop of Hasselt, Patrick Hoogmartens, and his counterpart in Bruges, Jozef De Kesel, said in separate comments that married men should not automatically be excluded from priesthood. The comments come amid the scandal over sex abuse among the clergy which has…
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