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This is funny! Two priests from the diocese of Pittsburgh – one the vocations director, the other a parish priest – made a funny video of them riding a scary roller coaster together. Posted on the diocese’s Facebook page, the video was an advertisement for a “Catholic day” at a local...
There are times in ministry when you come across a moment out of the blue that just becomes hard to shake off. Once in a while you come across a person you don’t know and might well never see again who has been bruised, beaten, and defeated by life...
I will confess that as a person of Irish heritage on both sides of my family, I found the events in Ireland last week particularly dispiriting. Not only did the nation vote, by a two-to-one margin, for the legal prerogative to kill their children in the womb, but they also...
Strong words from a source from which you might not have expected them! Bill Murray has been a successful comedian for decades. If you didn’t see him on Saturday Night Live, you probably saw him in Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, or one of his many other films. He was also...
Wow. This is heart-wrenching. A powerful drawing about abortion has been going viral on social media in the last week or so. The drawing shows a fetus grabbing onto a string attached to her mother’s heart while trying to get away from sharp instruments in her womb (you can...
When most people, even Catholics, think of the Catholic Church, they think of Latin rite Catholicism. That is, the Mass, customs, prayers, and art they think of is from the Latin rite. But that’s not all there is to the Catholic Church! There’s also more than twenty other...
