Category: Church

  • Appointmentpalooza 2009

    Bishop Gregory M. Aymond announced an incredible list of appointments today for the Diocese of Austin. I can’t remember a list being quite so long. In bold are appointments of particular note to me (via vocations, campus ministry, Paulists in some shape or another). In order to provide pastoral care for the people of God…

  • A great priest-per-Catholic ratio

    On Saturday, it was made public that the Pope appointed Fr. Beda Umberto Paluzzi, OSB, previously the apostolic administrator of the territorial abbey of Montevergine, Italy as the ordinary abbot of that territorial abbey. In laymen’s terms, the monk was an interim director of the abbey and is now officially the fully-vested chief of the abbey. A territorial abbey…

  • New NYC Archbishop Dolan Mentioned Hecker

    Newly-installed Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York mentioned Servant of God Issac Hecker in his opening homily today. Rocco has the full-text on his website.

  • The Final Week

    Now that we’ve celebrated the Sixth Sunday of Lent, which is actually Palm Sunday, so now past almost all of Lenten journey toward Easter. I pray that it was a beneficial one for you. Mine… well… let’s say that it started with me enjoying a homemade pizza on the First Friday of Lent, complete with turkey pepperoni. It…

  • Prayers Requested – Fr. Jesse Euresti

    Details are sketchy, but pray for Fr. Jesse Euresti, pastor of Cristo Rey parish in Austin, who is scheduled to retire in May. His family via KXAN are reporting that his home in Nuevo Laredo (newly purchased and where he plans to live in retirement) was found with his alarm off, garage door open, knife…

  • Pope Benedict XVI’s Prayer Intentions for April

    His general intention is “That the Lord may bless the farmers with an abundant harvest and sensitise the richer populations to the drama of hunger in the world.” His mission intension is “That the Christians who work in areas where the conditions of the poor, the weak and the women and children are most tragic,…