2011-10-06T09:37:24-04:00

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Details: Ten men were ordained to serve the Archdiocese of Detroit as permanent deacons last Saturday, Oct. 1, by Archbishop Allen Vigneron. The Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit was filled to capacity with the families and friends of the new deacon ordinandi, as well as deacons, priests and prelates of the archdiocese. In his homily, Archbishop Vigneron spoke of the ministry of the deacon in the Church, citing first the deacon’s teaching ministry, as when he proclaims... Read more

2016-09-30T17:36:56-04:00

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“The Macintosh is counter-reformist and has been influenced by the ratio studiorum of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory; it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach — if not the kingdom of Heaven — the moment in which their document is printed. It is catechistic: The essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation.” — Umberto Eco, 1994. Read more. Read more

2016-09-30T17:36:56-04:00

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A man uses his phone to take a picture of a memorial, placed in tribute to Steve Jobs, outside an Apple store in New York. Read more

2016-09-30T17:36:56-04:00

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He was also one of the wizards behind Pixar, and served as Executive Producer of the groundbreaking (and Oscar-winning) “Toy Story.”  Below, the classic song from that classic film.  Like Jobs himself, the movie celebrated imagination and ingenuity and a never-ending sense of wonder. Read more

2016-09-30T17:36:56-04:00

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Once every generation or so, someone like Steve Jobs comes along to upend our world and change the way we live in ways we could never have fathomed.  RIP. Here is the great commencement speech he gave several years ago at Stanford.  It’s worth hearing again.  And again.  Read more about him over at The Anchoress. Read more

2016-09-30T17:36:56-04:00

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It’s a serious problem, finally getting serious attention: Throughout the developed world, lowered birth rates and family breakdown will have a devastating effect on the global economy and the welfare state’s viability, says an international study released Oct 3. “On current trends, we face a world of rapidly aging and declining populations, of few children — many of them without the benefit of siblings and a stable, two-parent home — of lonely seniors living on meagre public support, of cultural... Read more

2016-09-30T17:36:57-04:00

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It features something truly extraordinary, and deeply moving: the ordination of a man who is deaf.  Just watch. H/T Imprisoned in My Bones Read more

2016-09-30T17:36:57-04:00

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It was inevitable, I guess, and now it’s getting attention from the press.  Details: As her grandfather sat pleasantly perplexed at her wedding, Lauren Barnes reached into the recesses of her strapless white gown, whipped out her iPhone and accepted her groom’s Facebook relationship change to “married.” “Nothing’s official,” she said, “until it’s Facebook official!” In today’s $78-billion-a-year business of getting married in the United States, those wacky viral videos of whole wedding parties dancing down the aisle seem positively... Read more

2016-09-30T17:36:57-04:00

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From the Archdiocese of Atlanta, news about a much-needed new outreach to couples facing a very personal loss: Out of her own heartbreak, Nicole Hartman is reaching out to other couples that share the grief of losing a child still in the womb. “It is this awful cross,” she said. The 39-year-old is leading the effort to form a ministry in the Atlanta Archdiocese called Embrace to aid other couples with support and compassion. The archdiocese appears to be one... Read more

2016-09-30T17:36:57-04:00

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The head of the Maronite Church, Patriarch Peter Bechara, has stirred up controversy in his home turf of Lebanon — so much, that President Obama has now canceled, without explanation, a scheduled meeting. Details: Though no official explanation has been given for the change of plans, Bishop Gregory Mansour of the Maronite Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn has made it clear in an open letter to the president that the Obama Administration rebuffed the patriarch: “Because he has spoken out... Read more

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