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It looks like most of humanity was right here. At a shopping mall in Texas. The ensuing spectacle can be summed up in three little words: Oh. My. God.

The roving religion writer for the Washington Post, Christy McKerney, popped by Our Lady of Divine Mercy in Massachusetts the other day, and had a memorable encounter with a young seminarian: Only Brother Andrew Davy, a 26-year-old American University graduate in philosophy, lingers to talk with me about faith. Brother Davy, who lives in Washington,…

This story has been floating around for a while, but Deal Hudson over at Inside Catholic has decided to shine a spotlight on it: Rudy Giuliani’s close friendship with an accused pedophile who just happens to be a Catholic priest, Msgr. Alan Placa: Placa has been suspended from his priestly duties for the past five…

This is the time of year we count our blessings, and number the miracles of our lives. The Sherman Family certainly has a lot of both to keep track of. This item from the Arlington Herald speaks volumes about how God, and prayer, can work wonders: He’s known around the community of Holy Cross Academy…

Lo and behold, USA TODAY has discovered religious blogging! And among those it features in this discovery are Rocco of Whispers in the Loggia and Fair Amy at Charlotte Was Both, two FOBs (Friends of This Blog). Take a look: “For Christ’s sake, stop!” declared the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Rev. Frank…

A deacon friend sent this my way: a song from the Christian rock group Go Fish that, I think, a lot of us should be singing this time of year. Enjoy. And spread the word. You know: the “C” word…

Many of us know what it’s like to have God get under our skin. But here’s a story of a deacon in California who perhaps understands that better than most: he’s Dr. David Sire, a dermatologist with a powerful backstory about his vocation: Sire, of Capistrano Beach, was a recent graduate of UC Irvine who…

It’s becoming a familiar story: a parish closes, and the flock can do little more than grieve. It happened again this weekend in Buffalo, and the local paper picks up the story: The Kilgen pipe organ thundered for the last time. A rendition of “Ave Maria” echoed gloriously among the decorative oak rafters. A haze…

In a tradition that seems to be spreading, thousands of Vietnamese gathered this weekend in California to celebrate and commemorate the martyrs who were canonized nearly 20 years ago. The Los Angeles Times takes note: Several thousand Vietnamese American Roman Catholics turned an Irvine arena into a makeshift church Sunday for a service commemorating the…

One of America’s most enduring TV personalities has coughed up a nice donation for his alma mater. Catholic News Service reports: Television personality Regis Philbin recently demonstrated that the education he received at a Catholic high school in the Bronx served him well. He won $175,000 on the Fox TV program “Are You Smarter Than…
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