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From Pennsylvania comes this story of a group of nuns who have made a thriving ministry from the good earth: Standing in a field of cherry-red maize and ripening pumpkins, John Moreira spotted a large insect flying amid the cornstalks. “See the praying mantis?” said Mr. Moreira, director of land management at Villa Maria, the…

Statistics like that are mind-blowing: my busy parish in Queens averages a little over 100 baptisms a year. Details: Extended families greet one another with hearty handshakes and pecks on the cheek as they file in to Incarnation church in Minneapolis on a recent Saturday morning. Professional photographers and video­graphers scope out ideal vantage points…

Clint Eastwood continues to amaze — at the tender age of 80. Here’s the first trailer from his new movie, “Hereafter,” which takes a B-movie premise and seemingly turns it into something approaching art. We’ll have to see how it turns out, but I can’t help but think that a man of Eastwood’s age and…

Diane M. Korzeniewski, who runs the excellent blog Te Deum laudamaus, alerts me to this striking photo essay,covering a march and mass in Michigan, conducted by the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants. She reports a remarkable turnout — more than 500! — and gives a very good account with her pictures. Check it out. The…
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