This is a cool first! If you didn’t know already, Google regularly changes the graphic on their main page to honor people or events. The new graphics are called “Google Doodles” (you can see an archive of all past Doodles here). And today, Google honored a Catholic priest for...
It’s certainly a new world! Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, RI is one of a growing number of clergy who are personally active on Twitter (you can follow him here). We’re not talking about an intern posting announcements, statements, or snippets from his sermons; rather, Bishop Tobin...
Some people are confused about this! Here’s what’s going on. Cardinal Francis Arinze is a beloved prince of the Church, respected very highly around the world. He’s well-known to be an intelligent, articulate, even humorous defender of orthodoxy. Which is why people were a bit surprised to...
It is not my job as a pastor to protect my flock from having to make hard decisions. We have gotten this mistaken notion in parishes that we must maneuver around every secular activity and only verify that matters of faith are wholly secondary to anything else… We accommodate, dumb...
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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...
