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…in those initiated and coming into full Communion. A good piece from the WaPo: At Mother Seton Parish’s Easter Vigil service last night, the front pews were filled with pilgrims who grew up far from the Catholic faith. There was a sparkling-eyed Muslim teenager, a Buddhist social worker raised in Sri Lankha and a Protestant…

…living in all those who serve in his name. A local story about a relatively new free medical clinic in Garrett, about 20 miles north of Fort Wayne: The waiting room to St. Martin’s Clinic was crowded Monday morning, but Francine Winters didn’t mind the wait. “This place has been a godsend,” Winters said, looking…

Images from the Triduum around the world, beginning with Good Friday: Click on photos for full captions. There will be some blog posts scattered throughout. But first – Jen Ambrose on Holy Thursday in China: Brazil, Saturday: Another photo and description of the tradition. Paraguay, Good Friday: Caracas: Bolivia: The Bronx: Philadelphia: Haiti: India: Brooklyn…

100,000 present in the Square and thereabouts: Christ is risen! Peace to you! Today we celebrate the great mystery, the foundation of Christian faith and hope: Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified One, has risen from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures. We listen today with renewed emotion to the announcement proclaimed…

Cardinal George took a fall yesterday: Cardinal Francis George was hospitalized with a slight hip fracture Saturday after he apparently slipped and fell inside a Chicago church while blessing Easter baskets, archdiocese officials said. George, 70, was at St. Ferdinand Catholic Church on the Northwest Side Saturday morning to bless baskets of food for Easter…

…if you’re like me, you see the cover of this week’s NYTimes Mag and you just cringe: Oh, no..not another hack job like the Kramer piece in the New Yorker…please.. But you know what? It’s not horrible. There are a few big holes in it, reflective of both blind spots and an not-surprisingly shallow Rolodex…

Some of you might recall that in late February, John Allen ran an column criticizing the coverage of religion, particularly Catholicism, that we find in the British press. Here’s a contender – one of many – for Exhibit A. A ridiculous and ignorant piece by the Rome correspondent of the London Times on the Stations…

..to bring you this odd, but I suppose hopeful story… A rabbi who temporarily resigned last month as head of South America’s largest Jewish Congregation after being arrested in Florida on shoplifting charges, said he will meet with Pope Benedict XVI when the pontiff visits in May. Henry I. Sobel, who for more than 30…

Here is a very important post, I think, from Father Z in Rome, about the situation of the Church in Italy and how rising tensions are affecting so many things – including the release of the MP. In Italy, Pope Benedict is making a huge splash.  Since he was elected, the left-wing has gone nearly…

There is a great deal of resonance in silence. Not just any silence, but silence in the midst of sound. A pause. Michael has described to me before the chanting of the Agnus Dei at St. Meinrad, in which the 3 tropes are chanted slowly, with a significant pause in between each one. It is…
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