As announced ( see below ), Bishop Keith Ackerman of Quincy will be retiring on All Saints' Day. It is sad to see him go, but I know it ...

Check out more pictures of St Giles (Pugin's masterpiece) and other beautiful churches on Brother Lawrence's Flickr photostream .

The Roman Catholic bishops of Fort Worth and Dallas recently issued this pastoral letter to their flocks about exercising faithfulness at t...

It's hard not to get in a good mood when you listen to this cheesy favorite.

Now that saucy love is back , I think we can make a few theological insights about heaven, inspired by McRib: 1. Since it tastes like heaven...

This is not any kind of solicitation, but since Madeline's baby shower is coming up this Saturday, a few people had asked about where sh...

This catholicvote.com video really blew me away.

The banking industry, like the value of paper money, needs public confidence to survive. My bank, WaMu , was done in a few weeks ago by a cl...

Some words of welcome I gave before the funeral: Today we gather to worship the Lord and to commend the soul of our beloved relative and fri...

My maternal grandfather died last night. Thank you for all of you who have said prayers for him recently. I ask for a few more. Into thy han...

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s sermon at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes at the International Mass of 24 September 2008 (the feast of O...

This is the interior of St Alban's Episcopal Church during Sunday Mass, shortly after the present church was constructed in the 1950s. Y...

At Morning Prayer here at St Alban's, we use Robert Canon Wright's, Readings for the Daily Office from the Early Church . The readin...

If you are like me, you are thinking, "You know, that big screen TV the Republicans have been using at their convention would be just a...

Our new curate at St Alban's and his wife just had their new baby boy, James Bennett. He arrived about a month before he was due. The ph...

Medieval stained-glass windows colored in gold nanoparticles help purify air when lit by the sun, a new study finds. "For centuries peo...

Slowly but surely, we are making improvements to the Canterbury House. A new roof will come this Fall and new exterior paint next Spring. Bu...