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August 2015

August 15, 2015

Bye bye basket? Texas churches experiment with tablets, kiosks for collections

Details from The El Paso Times: The Catholic Church has always been steeped in tradition...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

Deacons in “a new model of parish management” in St. Louis

This won't be a surprise in some places, and it echoes what is happening now...

July 31, 2015

Deacons in “a new model of parish management” in St. Louis

This won’t be a surprise in some places, and it echoes what is happening now...

July 23, 2015

New York City’s deaf Catholics find a new home

Some readers may recall the controversy surrounding the announcement last year that a parish serving...

July 23, 2015

New York City’s deaf Catholics find a new home

Some readers may recall the controversy surrounding the announcement last year that a parish serving...

July 08, 2015

An interesting lineup of deacons at this parish…

An alert reader—thank you, Frank Weathers—pointed this out to me, from a parish in California:...

July 08, 2015

An interesting lineup of deacons at this parish…

An alert reader—thank you, Frank Weathers—pointed this out to me, from a parish in California:...

July 02, 2015

“Team ministry” launched in Pittsburgh

Hot on the heels of the announcement that some deacons will serve as parish administrators,...

July 02, 2015

“Team ministry” launched in Pittsburgh

Hot on the heels of the announcement that some deacons will serve as parish administrators,...

June 2015

June 02, 2015

More on Pittsburgh’s deacon administrators

You may remember this item from last week, about deacons taking over some parishes in...

June 02, 2015

More on Pittsburgh’s deacon administrators

You may remember this item from last week, about deacons taking over some parishes in...

May 2015

May 24, 2015

Hailing the “Solomonic appointment” in San Francisco

A few readers have taken issue with my posting on the decision to remove the...

May 24, 2015

Hailing the “Solomonic appointment” in San Francisco

A few readers have taken issue with my posting on the decision to remove the...

May 21, 2015

SF aftershock: controversial priest, Fr. Illo, removed—UPDATED

You probably remember this headline-grabber from January. Now an update: The controversial pastor of a...

May 21, 2015

SF aftershock: controversial priest, Fr. Illo, removed—UPDATED

You probably remember this headline-grabber from January. Now an update: The controversial pastor of a...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Parish cancels pig wrestling competition after backlash

In Wisconsin: St. Patrick Parish in Stephensville has called off its decades-old annual pig wrestling...

April 23, 2015

Parish cancels pig wrestling competition after backlash

In Wisconsin: St. Patrick Parish in Stephensville has called off its decades-old annual pig wrestling...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Want to prove you’re a good Catholic? Get your papers in order!

An excellent nudge, from Commonweal: Want to prove you’re a good Catholic? I’m afraid you’ll...

March 30, 2015

Want to prove you’re a good Catholic? Get your papers in order!

An excellent nudge, from Commonweal: Want to prove you’re a good Catholic? I’m afraid you’ll...

March 27, 2015

Lent to go: church offers drive-thru fish fry

From The Detroit News: On Fridays during Lent, just a little before 4 p.m., a...

March 27, 2015

Lent to go: church offers drive-thru fish fry

From The Detroit News: On Fridays during Lent, just a little before 4 p.m., a...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

Girls interrupted: how one parish changed its altar server policy

From CNA: Holy Name Parish in Denver changed its altar serving policy about six months...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

UPDATE on SF parish banning altar girls: “A lot of the people who are upset are not parishioners”

A follow-up on this story from last week, from SF Gate: The Rev. Joseph Illo, pastor...

January 12, 2015

What happened when a priest invited 500 young people in his parish to talk about the church?

Read on, via National Catholic Reporter: Less than 10 percent of the 500 invited showed...

December 2014

December 01, 2014

New York parish serving the deaf slated to close

Details: The choir members filed up to the altar in robes the color of the...

November 2014

November 10, 2014

Want to evangelize the young at your parish? Try this.

It's these guys: the altar servers. Sunday, we installed 27 new servers—in the picture above,...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Is yours a “million dollar parish”?

An interesting glimpse at a growing phenomenon in the American church, via OSV: A million-dollars...

August 16, 2014

Who’s getting paid for ministry at your parish?

I don't know anyone who's getting rich working for the Church, but the good people...

August 03, 2014

A wonderful vocations tool: novena to St. John Vianney

Once again, my parish is in the midst of a great tradition, offering the annual...

July 2014

July 06, 2014

Boom: Catholic Church growing in Georgia

Details, from The Chattanooga Times Free Press: Two separate car dealerships failed at a concrete-and-glass...