LATROBE, Pa. (AP) "” In a simple St. Vincent Archabbey workshop jammed with bolts of fabric and sewing machines, a world-renowned artist and Benedictine monk spent weeks hunched over a computer, ...
John Lennon said, "When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps." Those who ...
I had forgotten the required soft white shoes so I can still hear down the years the echoing noise of the steel tips of my shoes on the tiled sanctuary floor.There was an army of 40 altar servers all ...
Read an excerpt from Brian Doyle’s memoir “Altar Boy.” It appears in RESURRECTING GRACE: REMEMBERING CATHOLIC CHILDHOODS, a collection of essays edited by Marilyn Sewell and published by Beacon Press: ...
In Tiverton, R.I., when some parishioners suggested returning altar rails to the sanctuary of Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Father Jay Finelli gladly accepted, little knowing shortly thereafter the Pope ...