What was this priest thinking? In a video that’s gone viral around the world, you can see an elderly priest slap a crying baby during a baptism. The baby wouldn’t be quiet after the priest tried to comfort him, so the priest grabbed hold of the baby and...
I love this! A friend of ours Addae Vinicius is a seminarian in the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro. He and his fellow seminarians were riding a public train going somewhere – when they decided to break out in song. Really! Vinicius was able to take two short videos, which you...
You don’t see this very often! The Diocese of Lafayette had seven new priests ordained this last weekend – which is a great thing to celebrate! But have you seen a celebration like this? At what appears to be a reception, someone started playing the song “Shout” and one of...
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...
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...
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...
