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Very nice story from the Kalamazoo diocese about a priest who has overcome much: Being a parish priest in America is a dream come true for Tran. The second of six children, Tran was baptized Gioan Baotixita Tran-Kim-Tuyen at Duc Huy Catholic Church in Dong Nai, South Vietnam. Life was hard for Tran, who grew…

Courage Man has an important post, trying to work out the possibilities in the future: I think the Church in Britain now, and thus the Church in the US sometime soon, really only has two options in the long run, though it should still do whatever it can do to kick the can down the…

…for Warsaw  Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Kazimierz Nycz the new archbishop of Warsaw, the Polish Episcopate said in a statement Saturday. Nycz, the 57-year-old bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg in northern Poland, replaces former Warsaw Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus, who abruptly resigned at what was to be his opulent installation Mass on Jan. 7 after admitting he…

…much. If you haven’t yet, visit weblog of Our Lady of the Atonement Parish in San Antonio, an Anglican Use parish pastored by Fr. Christopher Phillips Why Fr. Phillips loves Lent: In addition to the three Masses we celebrated, the students also assembled for Solemn Evensong just before the end of the school day. It’s…

Another book to read. Well, not that it will be a time-consuming or difficult read, being an introduction to the subject, but I’m intrigued enough – especially by the fact that it is illustrated, something that few histories of the Church are, and it certainly looks to be an interesting addition to the (currently very…

Registration for World Youth Day ’08 in Sydney opens today – 500 days before the event begins. Some notes: I suppose because it was nifty in Cologne, the Pope will make his entrance by boat: The auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Mons. Anthony Fisher, told korazym that Pope Benedict XVI will disembark at the port of…

Continuing to meander through the excellent Habits of Devotion on which I initially blogged a few days ago here. The topic for today is "participation." If you lurk in internet discussions of liturgy and simply tradition in general, you’ll find that "participation" is a surprisingly hot topic. The reason comes down to a single section…

Fr. Robert Barron has added cultural commentary – in the form of film reviews that are posted on YouTube – to his repertoire. Fargo and The Departed are up.  They are very well produced, and Fr. Barron is his usual clear, engaging self. Check it out and pass it on! Sort of, kind of related,…

A trend story in the WSJ about young people becoming more religiously observant than their parents: Like any trend story you wonder about the stats, but one part of story has a bit more meat indicating a real trend: Young people gravitating toward orthodoxy is also an emergent issue in the Orthodox Jewish community. There…

Pray…Fast…give alms: The list of grassroots groups you folks helped compile last month Other groups we’ve mentioned: Scottish International Relief The Haitian Project Aid to the Church in Need And you know, there are undoubtedly free clinics in your area, crisis pregnancy centers, a St. Vincent de Paul Society…and much else. (Photo source) From a…
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