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From the Church Music Associaton comes word that they will be offering a seminar for priests in how to sing the “extraordinary rite,” that is, the Latin mass. According to their press release: The sung Mass remains the normative form in the Roman Rite – but it is not the norm in most parishes. “A…

“Church Deacon, OU Fan Tears Scrotum Of UT Fan In Bar Fight”

This election cycle, Rudy Giuliani is the Catholic who’s been getting the most attention — and the most heat. But there are other Catholics running for president. The Christian Science Monitor in its Monday edition has a fascinating profile of Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who talks candidly about his Catholicism: Biden says he grew up…

Now, here’s something you don’t hear about every day: six generations of brides being married walking down the same aisle, in the same Catholic church, over nearly 150 years. This has all the makings of a made-for-TV movie on Lifetime. But you can read about it here, first, courtesy the Twin Cities Pioneer Press: When…

After too-long a time, the Diocese of Pittsburgh is getting ready to welcome a new bishop. Hometown boy David Zubik is to be installed at the end of September, and he’s already making the rounds of the local media. Here’s a nugget from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: David A. Zubik once hoped to be winning lawsuits,…

It’s one of the most vexing problems facing the Church: how to woo back sheep who have strayed, Catholics who are no longer practicing. An Arizona newspaper has a profile of some people who are trying to reach this particular group — and believe that they can, in fact, be reached: Catholics like Pat Julian…

Novelist Mary Gordon has just published a new book, with memories of her mother and her Catholic upbringing in the middle of the last century. For anyone who wonders what it was like to come of age during that particular time, the book, “Circling My Mother,” appears to be a vivid reminder of what the…

From the blog Clerical Whispers, we get this piece of news about a priest in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia who has been suspended because of an argument he got into with his parish deacon: The Rev. Joseph J. Clark, an Irish-Catholic bartender turned priest, never planned to be in the middle of a fracas…

What happens to a church after it’s closed? Here in New York City, I know of a couple places that have become condos (with awesomely high ceilings and stunning stained glass windows in the master bedroom.) But a reporter at the Religion News Service decided to find out what various religions do when a temple…

Continuing the “Sister Act” theme I began on the feast of the Queenship of Mary, here’s one for a Friday afternoon. I imagine — even in the bleakest moments of her doubt — that Blessed Mother Teresa could have understood the sentiment in this.
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