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As you know, the Pope has asked that today be a day of prayer and penance for the cause of peace. Here is a translation of today’s Angelus, courtesy of Teresea at the Papa Ratzinger Forum: Dear brothers and sisters, As announced last Thursday, in view of the aggravating situation in the Middle East, I…

An article on the growing number of Vietnamese American priests. This changing face of the priesthood was on display recently when the Diocese of Orange, in Southern California, ordained two Vietnamese American seminarians — and a third clergyman — at a Mass celebrated in Vietnamese, Spanish and English. There now are 50 Asian priests, predominantly…

A NYTimes profile of the Roman Catholic bishop of Algeria…the land of St. Augustine, where Christianity has just about disappeared. When he began his work as a parish priest in 1958, there were more than 700 churches in the country. But even then Christianity was only an implant. Within months of Algeria’s independence from France…

Newsday article on priests ministering to the Spanish-speaking population in Long Island. Amazing. An article on this subject that doesn’t reference how much more fantastic the Protestants are doing in this regard. In many parts of the country, seminary education has a heavy bilingual flair to it, and seminarians must learn how to say Mass…
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