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The Denver Broncos know a good thing when they see it. And a devoted group of nuns who happen to be football fans is a very good thing: “Quiet please. Let’s go again.” In the chapel at Exempla St. Joseph Hospital in Denver July 31, amid the lights and camera and cable and sound equipment,…

While some wring their hands over prep seminaries closing, and the fact that younger men are choosing not to enter religious life, there is this silver lining: more older men are deciding they look better in black, and becoming priests. Consider this great story from the South Carolina State newspaper: When the Rev. Timothy M.…

To celebrate Wednesday’s feast, the Queenship of Mary, a singular rendition of a hymn we all know, from “Sister Act.” Crank up the speakers and sing with us, ye seraphim!

A billboard for storage space in Manhattan has been generating a lot of buzz — most of it negative. After the Catholic League criticized the display, others starting arguing about it and taking a closer look. The consensus now? If the storage company was looking for some good PR, it blew it: Naturally the ads…

Last week, I posted about the grade school offering discounts if families actually go to church. Now, here’s another novel idea — and one that should attract a lot of curiosity: Our Lady of La Salette Catholic School in the Detroit suburb of Berkley is making a guarantee: First-graders will be reading at a second-grade…

With the new Ave Maria University up and running down in Florida, the inevitable comparisons to another Catholic university to the north — specifically, the one in South Bend, Indiana — have started to crop up. This report from South Bend fires the first shot: Each building at the University of Notre Dame has its…

Washington’s retired Archbishop, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, hasn’t been idle. This month found him in, of all places, Serbia, where he managed to make a little history: The foundation stone has been laid for the first Catholic seminary for Serbia. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, D.C., presided over the ceremony, calling it a historic…

An old joke asks: “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Answer: “Practice.” This story asks: “How do you get to a monastery?” Answer: “Peddle.” There are many ways to discern a religious vocation, and the woman in this item decided the best way was to use her legs. This comes to us from The…

If you think priests in this country have problems, consider the situation in the Philippines where, according to this wire report, they’re dealing with a number of Fathers who are fathers: The head of the Philippine church’s marriage-appeals court disapproves of priests continuing in the ministry after fathering children and rejects efforts to “cure” these…

The more we read about troubles facing various world monarchs, the more grateful I am that we don’t have any here. The latest tidbit comes from Norway, via AFP: A school newly created by Norway’s Princess Maertha Louise for students who wish to “get in contact with (their) angels” was due to open on Thursday…
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