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This just might be one of the most startling videos you’ll see. People either love it or hate it — there is no middle ground. And there shouldn’t be. As YouTube describes it: On a recent trip to Europe, a family of three generations (a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren) dance to Gloria…

Um, yes. In the Netherlands.  If the “picnic mass” wasn’t too much for you, here’s another treat, h/t Al Kresta and Creative Minority Report. As Al puts it: Does this look like “sacred space” to you? Does this look like place for worship of God or soccer? Does the congregation look more interested in the…

A friend sent this along, and it is truly mind-boggling. Or maybe, mind-blowing. Read it and weep, or maybe laugh, from a diocese in Mississippi: In June, the Mission and Ministry in Mississippi Task Force Committee held meetings with the leadership of religious order priests and religious communities of sisters and brothers to discuss, according…

I needed a lift last night, and The Anchoress gave it to me, with the clip below. I feel better already.  Crank up the volume and kick start your day.  And make it a happy one!

More news brewing on the Medjugorje front, according to the website Petrus. This, from the blog Catholic Light: Vicka Ivanković, Mirijana Dragičević, Marija Pavlović, Ivan Dragičević, Ivanka Ivanković and Jakov Čolo, the famous pseudo-seers of Medjugorje, will have to report to the Vatican, probably right after the summer, to respond to questions from the Commission…

Anyone who has ever had a son or daughter enter religious life will appreciate this heartfelt essay by Peter Finney, Jr., describing the emotions of watching his son grow up to become a priest: Look for me in the first pew at St. Louis Cathedral…I’ll be the one being propped up by my wife, who…

This item moved over the wire late Friday. The mind boggles: The University of Illinois has fired an adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism after a student accused the instructor of engaging in hate speech by saying he agrees with the church’s teaching that homosexual sex is immoral. The professor, Ken Howell of Champaign,…

Could the trickle of Anglicans leaving their church turn into a flood? From the Telegraph: Hundreds of traditionalist clergy are set to leave the Church of England over plans to introduce women bishops. Leading Anglo-Catholic clergy warned that the failure to provide concessions to opponents of the historic reform would force many of them to…

That seems to be the way things are headed, anyway: Note to the Village People: The lyrics in your biggest hit need an update. The organization previously known as the Y.M.C.A. is henceforth to be called “the Y.” One of the nation’s most iconic nonprofit organizations, founded 166 years ago in England as the Young…

A friend who follows baseball — Mike “God Googler” Hayes — draws my attention to a big loss in the world of sports: Bob Sheppard, whose elegant intonation as the public-address announcer at Yankee Stadium for more than half a century personified the image of Yankee grandeur, died Sunday at his home in Baldwin, on…
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