A Deacon-to-be blogs Catholicism by Mike Hayes
Classic fail: Archbishop of the Vatican’s New Internet Evangelization Outreach presently does not have internet access. So says Britain’s Catholic Herald. The head of the new pontifical council charged with…
An English teacher I had in high school had us write our own obituary as an exercise. In college, I took a class called Death and Dying where we did…
This past Sunday I attended the 8:30 AM mass at my parish and one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen was at communion. There was a middle…
The NY Times reports today that clergy are burning themselves out. Duh, you’re not exactly breaking a story there. The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few…
Myisha Cherry takes a stab at an open letter to Anne Rice. She sums up nicely some similar thoughts to my own. Even today there are a few of my…
Catholic Anarchy responds: I can’t say I can’t relate to Rice’s frustrations with the Catholic Church and with her feeling that she is an “outsider.” I do think the Googling…
While not especially current in musical style, I’m sure when the Paulists started this folk group they were a big hit. Paul Snatchko found this on you tube randomly and…
Sad news today as Fr. Larry Boadt, a Paulist and a world class scripture scholar has died after a long illness. His masterpiece, Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction is…
U.S. Catholic has a gem today that asks that question (by the way, the answer is NO!): The School of Americas Watch, which protests the military school that taught torture…
That’s the question that Deacon Greg Kandra takes up today over at Patheos which seems to be growing by leaps and bounds and is chock full of good articles. Deacon…