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…and in ways you’d never expect. This is just incredibly cool. The description on YouTube puts it thusly: This is a song about a church being moved hundreds of miles across the US on the back of a very big lorry. Features the 40 strong Manning Chorus in what is possibly one of the most…

Before the Big Game, another awesome ad. This is the classic commercial that introduced the Apple Mac to the world: And this is the inspired take-off from last year that, I think, has proved prescient.

A key moment in the canonization process of Fulton Sheen is drawing to a close, as Clerical Whispers notes: A milestone in the cause for sainthood of El Paso native Archbishop Fulton Sheen comes Sunday, with a special mass of thanksgiving at 10:30 a.m. at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Peoria.…

Another Catholic radio station is about to join the airwaves. Tune in to the aptly named “Annunciation Radio”, whose motto is “Faith with frequency”: A Toledo Catholic radio station will make its debut tomorrow. But it will be a limited engagement for Annunciation Radio, which is leasing two hours of airtime on WTOD-AM (1560). “It’s…

We just marked Catholic Schools Week in this country – an appreciation of those who have taught – and continue to teach – in the Catholic school system. Many of us, I know, can remember when those teachers were nuns. They were extraordinarily generous with their time and talent. And the work they did endures…

One of my brother deacons, a classmate ordained with me last May, is seriously ill. Jim was taken to the ER earlier this week, and I finally was able to visit him in the ICU tonight. He’s hooked up to a variety of machines, but for a few moments he was awake, and his eyes…

It seems Pope Benedict is also Pop Benedict. Soda pop, to be exact: Winston Churchill made no secret of his love of brandy and cigars; Margaret Thatcher was bereft without her handbag, and Pope Benedict XVI, I can reveal, has Fanta. When the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, visited the Vatican this week, he gave…

A recent post about Catholic writers prompted a reader to ask: What exactly is a Catholic writer? I prefer “Christian writer” who happens to be Catholic -and who is espoused to catholic dogma. No? It’s a good question — and I found one answer in this week’s Tablet, the paper of my home diocese, Brooklyn,…

The Wall Street Journal today has a glimpse at an unusual business trend: branding the Bible. Specifically, “jazzing up” the Good Book with celebrities: A few years ago, Canongate issued the “Pocket Canons” — individual books of the Bible reprinted with introductions by various cultural luminaries. As Canongate’s publisher, Jamie Byng, said: “The Bible’s daunting…

I got a letter today from my friend, the Trappist priest and writer James Stephen Behrens (known to his pals as “Jeff.”) He enclosed with it, as he does with many letters, a short reflection. In this one, he wrote about what it was like when he was a parish priest; on the first Friday…
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