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Two great stories about the gift of giving caught my eye recently. The first came last night on the CBS Evening News — a broadcast with which I have some passing familiarity, cough, cough — and was about a bank in North Dakota that gave its employees a thousand dollar bonus for Christmas. But with…

Zillionaire Thomas Monaghan, founder of Domino’s Pizza and the new Ave Maria University, has thrown his support to Mitt Romney for president: “It is an honor for me to endorse Governor Mitt Romney for President,” Monaghan said. “He is a proven leader and has demonstrated his effectiveness in multiple arenas – in his successful business…

Word from Florida about a novel way of promoting and praying for vocations — and it seems to be catching on: A new practice is spreading in the Diocese of Palm Beach and elsewhere around the nation: families allowed, one Sunday at a time, to take a chalice home after Mass for a week of…

Here’s some intriguing news from Texas, about a thriving school for ministry at the University of Dallas. The biggest surprise? It’s for Catholics: Brian Schmisek grew up full of questions – especially about his faith. Early on, he wanted to know the meaning of life. “I drove my parents crazy with all my questions,” the…

That’s the theme of this delightful music video I just caught at Beliefnet. Think life is complicated? Relax, dude. This is a perfect chaser for a Friday. Enjoy.

If you’re wondering, like a lot of us, why more Catholics don’t go to mass, a priest has just published his thoughts on the subject: Why do Catholics stop attending Mass? This question was asked in a recent study conducted by the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. More than disagreeing with church doctrines, the sex abuse…

The New Evangelization may have a new tool: YouTube. This item from a Canadian paper says that site and others on the Internet are being used increasingly to spread The Word, in a way Matthew, Mark, Luke and John could never have imagined: Who is God?” was one of the top questions asked by Google…

Yes, it seems that’s the way it went down in New Hampshire. The New Republic has some factoids: Here are Clinton’s groups: women, particularly married women, voters over 40, voters making less than $50,000, voters without a college degree, union voters, Democrats, Catholics (an important constituency for the Democrats), people very worried about the economy,…

Trying to clear up your clutter after the holidays? Have you resolved to Get Organized? Take a look at this breathtaking stop-animation ad for a storage company: And here, you can see how it was done:

In my experience as a minister of holy communion, I’ve noticed that an overwhelming number of the faithful prefer to receive the body of Christ standing, in their hands. That seems to be the predominant custom in the United States. But one bishop, writing in the Vatican newspaper, says that shouldn’t be the case: The…
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