by Msgr. Gregory Smith | Jul 11, 2020
The delightful Danish comedian and musician Victor Borge decided to buy a chicken farm.“But you don’t know anything about breeding chickens,” a friend argued.
“No,” Borge replied in his usual deadpan way. “But the chickens do.”
I’m not funny like Victor Borge, but I’m with him when it comes to any kind of farming or gardening. In fact, someone once accused me of having a black thumb.
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by Editor | Jul 11, 2020
The Vatican announced Saturday that Pope Francis has recognized the heroic virtues of a 14-year-old Italian boy who died in 1963. The pope advanced the cause of Angiolino Bonetta, along with four others, following a July 10 meeting with Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Bonetta was born on Sept. 18, 1948, in Cigole, northern Italy. A lively but virtuous boy, he excelled at school as well as at sports.
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by Editor | Jul 11, 2020
Here is a recent interview I did with Simone Rizkallah of Endow, a Denver-based group that “unites the Catholic intellectual tradition with intentional community by creating study guides and organizing women into small groups.” It began as a discussion on race and COVID and expanded from there. I really enjoyed our conversation which was wide-ranging and personal…
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by Editor | Jul 11, 2020
It’s July of 2020. Do you know where the McCarrick report is? There are people who still care about the who, what, when, where, why and how of the scandal that brought down former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, at one time the most press-friendly and influential cardinal in the United States of America.
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by Editor | Jul 11, 2020
A massive fire devastated an 18th century mission church in San Gabriel, in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, July 11. Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles called the fire at San Gabriel Mission church, founded by St. Junipero Serra, “devastating.”
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by Fr. Daniel Callam | Jul 11, 2020
Love & Friendship (2016)
Written and Directed by Whit Stillman
Based on Jane Austen’s Lady Susan
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by Editor | Jul 11, 2020
CNA Staff, Jul 11, 2020 / 08:15 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles has expressed his “terrible sadness” after a fire at a 249-year-old mission church founded by St. Junípero Serra, and asked for prayers for the local Catholic community.
Gomez said that the fire at “our beloved Mission San Gabriel Arcángel” early Saturday morning had caused severe damage to the California Historic Landmark.
“The damage is extensive — the roof is destroyed and much of the old church is ruined,” the archbishop reported in a letter released the evening of July 11. “It is terribly sad. Thanks be to God, nobody was hurt.”
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