Wow, this was very moving. Last Sunday, Bruce Springsteen won a special Tony award for his one-man show Springsteen on Broadway. At the awards show, he performed a version of his old song My Hometown, with added reminiscing about the Catholic faith of his childhood (you can watch the video...
This is a powerful video! Clay Christensen knows his stuff. He’s the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; his Harvard page says he “is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth”; and he wrote one of the...
Hey, anyone can make a mistake! Including diocesan newspapers. Archbishop Robert James Carlson of St. Louis, MO recently ordained 25 men as permanent deacons, the largest ordination class the archdiocese has had in 41 years. Given the shortage of ordained men, that’s an amazing accomplishment and should be celebrated!...
You probably didn’t expect this! When you think of religiosity, you might not think of pop singer Alanis Morissette. But in a recent interview with The Guardian, she was asked what her “most treasured possession” was. Her answer: a crucifix. Here’s her full answer: “A crucifix my grandmother...
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos died last month at the age of 88. Towards the end of his life he was a controversial figure for his handling of the Church’s sex abuse crisis and for some missteps in his work to regularize SSPX. But as a pastor in Colombia he...
Praise the Lord! Landslides can be extremely destructive. Which is why when one started on the side of a mountain in Valle Spluga in Italy heading toward a historic church, things looked pretty bad. But amazingly, even though around 7500 cubic meters of rock fell off the mountain and enveloped...
