A Very Good Priest

Gives of himself, so that another might live. From the Florida Catholic:
Father Cioffi invited Chavez to attend a retreat at the Holy Spirit Monastery in Conyers, Ga., in thanksgiving for her total recovery from the pneumonia. She accepted, even though she was still in a wheelchair.
“I remember that it was the feast of St. Benedict [...]

Death Be Not Proud: Roe at 35

From the Birmingham News:
The most important number to remember this day is not 35, as in years, but somewhere in the tens of millions, as in babies. According to reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, close to 40 million babies have been aborted since 1973. The pro-abortion-rights Guttmacher Institute in New York [...]

Monsignor Joseph Champlin, RIP

I met him only once, but through his countless pastoral books feel like I knew him well.
 From News 10:
A retired Catholic priest well-known for his writing and work within the Syracuse Diocese has passed away.
Monsignor Joseph Champlin, 77, died Thursday evening at University Hospital after a long battle with a rare cancer.
Father Champlin received the [...]

Pope Names Two Top Tasks That Face the Church

Evangelization and ecumenism.
 From Zenit:
“The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world — and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism — are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support.
“Just as the Church’s missionary activity [...] finds its inspiration and its [...]

Feast of Saint Meinrad, Hermit and Martyr

The story for those who are unfamiliar with Saint Meinrad:
Early in the ninth century, a saintly, quiet-loving young Benedictine monk named Meinrad, while passing through the city of Zurich on his way to become a teacher at the small monastery of Bollingen, was deeply thrilled when the Abbess-Princess Hildegarde gave him a lovely three-foot wooden [...]