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A few days ago, I posted this bizarre video of an outdoor mass in Austria. I asked if anyone could translate, and one of my readers — a deacon in Washington, DC — generously obliged. His text: On the 29th of June, the pastor of Vienna’s Cathedral, Father Toni Faber celebrated the so called Western…

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“I would say it is appropriate and even mandatory to do what one can for another who is sick; and if you believe that praying helps, to pray. It is in any case an expression of one’s deep hopes. So yes, I will pray for him, but I will not insult him by asking or…

That first word — “Remember…” — gives meaning and hope to one of the most popular prayers of the Church, the Memorare. A deacon friend today asked me to whisper one for him. That sparked quite a few remembrances of my own. My father used to pray it, incessantly, in his wheelchair at the nursing…

If you visit the Holy Land, there is a museum that opened about a year ago that is getting a lot of attention, and attracting a lot of visitors. It stands on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho – the very same road mentioned in today’s gospel. The museum holds various religious artifacts and mosaics.…

While much attention has been focused on the Vatican’s new norms to cover clerical sex abuse — norms that are due out any day now — Catholic News Service reports that another item may also be covered: The Vatican is preparing to update the 2001 norms that deal with priestly sex abuse of minors, in…

It’s a question that people are asking more and more: with all the problems today, why stay Catholic?  Here’s part of one man’s long answer, from the Sunday magazine of the Boston Globe: I like my faith in purple – the purple neither of mourning nor of majesty, but the purple of twilight and of…

Days after a teacher in India was brutally attacked, his family is offering words of forgiveness: The family of a professor in southern India whose hand was cut off by suspected Islamic extremists have told the BBC they forgive his attackers. Professor TJ Joseph was attacked by eight people on Sunday as he was returning…

Thank you, Bristol Palin, for showing us how youthful mistakes and irresponsibility can turn into a financial windfall. Gail Collins puts it in context: Bristol… is currently the teen ambassador for the Candie’s Foundation to prevent teen pregnancy. She is also available to speak about her experiences — for fees of $15,000 and up. Earlier…

A friend found this ad and posted it on his Facebook page. A portable telephone that you can take anywhere? That’s just nuts. Who’d want that?
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