Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

The Deacon's Bench

A key Vatican official had some harsh words for those priests and bishops who aren’t exactly jumping for joy over the Motu Proprio. The Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige spoke to Bruno Volpe for the papal news website Petrus, and this snip was posted on the blog Rorate Caeli:…

To the surprise of virtually no one, President Bush has selected a Harvard professor as his new ambassador to the Vatican: President Bush plans to nominate Harvard University law professor Mary Ann Glendon to be his new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Glendon, 69, is an anti-abortion scholar and an opponent of gay marriage who…

It’s unusual that brothers find themselves in the seminary studying for the priesthood at the same time — but that’s happened to two men in New Orleans. The Clarion Herald profiled them recently: At a time when the U.S. church is fervently praying and diligently searching for vocations to the priesthood,Notre Dame Seminary has a…

Outside Rockefeller Center, New York City. November 5, 2007. Photo: by Stan Honda/Getty Images

It’s rare to find a funeral director who’s a woman. And even rarer to find a funeral director who’s a woman…and a nun. But here’s a story about one in Kansas: For Benedictine Sister Christine Kean, becoming a funeral director was more the outcome of a lifelong fascination than the realization of a lifelong dream.…

A political tragedy seems to be unfolding, even as I type: MCPF Stephen Colbert has reached into the ring and taken back his hat. The race is over. Or so claims the traditionally-hostile-to-Catholics-and-other-nice-people liberal media: Stephen Colbert has dropped his bid for the White House. His announcement came after the South Carolina Democratic Executive Council…

A priest in Philadelphia couldn’t contain himself this weekend and, according to the blog Creative Minority Report, he felt he had something he had to share: A priest at a Jesuit University in Philadelphia announced he was gay during Mass Sunday night to kick off the school’s “Unity Week.” During the homily, Thomas J. Brennan,…

Anyone planning to attend the Beijing Olympics next year will have to leave any dangerous and potentially lethal weapons at home. Things like, you know, your bible: Organizers of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing have published a list of “prohibited objects” in the Olympic village where athletes will stay. To the surprise of many, Bibles…

When I was visiting the monastery in Georgia, I heard about evangelicals making retreats there. I thought that was unusual — but this article seems to indicate it’s part of a growing trend: About eight years ago, I found myself in a convent in Bogotá, Colombia. I had not planned to get me to a…

In Baltimore this weekend, the faithful turned out by the hundreds to celebrate nothing less than something miraculous: Hundreds of Peruvian-American Catholics reinforced ties to their religious heritage yesterday as teams slowly carried an image of Jesus that is revered in their native country for its miraculous powers through the streets of Fells Point. The…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners