Prayer for vocations.

I met some very neat people last night after the Latin Mass at St. Mark’s in Vienna. Two are young men, Danny and Marcel, who are very serious about becoming priests, one is a woman, Jackie, considering life as a Carmelite. Pray for them and for all vocations!

New links for some old and new blogs.

We’ve added links for Minute Particulars and a new blog by Francis Mooney called Xavier+. The links are alphabetized as well, which shows our ongoing commitment to providing the best experience possible for our readers. Actally, it shows I have an IQ of more than 60 and I that learned something in elementary school….

Crosses as a fashion statement?

I thought a bit more about the Vatican’s statement on celebs wearing fancy crucifixes as jewelry. In all the news clips and photos I saw they don’t appear to be wearing crucifixes, but rather crosses without the corpus of our Lord. Are they protestants perhaps? It takes me back to what St. Francis of Assisi said about the empty cross. He called it “the cross of the bad thief.”