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Do you remember Stephen of Bourbon? I wrote about him in this e-newsletter about a year ago. He was a 13th-century Dominican heresy hunter who traveled around France battling unorthodox religious ideas and superstitions. One day, near the…

Immaculate Conception Parish, Washington, Pennsylvania

Some 35 years ago, on a Sunday evening, my friend Rob called to tell me about his wild weekend. After his last class on Friday at the seminary college he attended, he’d driven to a beach community in a neighboring state, spent most of…

It’s Christmas Eve during the Vigil Mass in my parish. There’s a good crowd of parishioners (including loads of kids), and my wife’s children’s choir is singing. They sound terrific. The readings are being…