Msgr. Richard Antall
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Meryl Streep aside, Narnia still has an Aslan problem (opens the original)
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“I’m shocked, shocked,” says Captain Renault on closing Rick’s Café in the movie “Casablanca,” “to find out that gambling is going on here.” He is disingenuous about that, because he just had some winnings. However, I am shocked (I hope not disingenuously) to hear that Meryl Streep will be the voice of Aslan in the upcoming Netflix production of “The Magician’s Nephew” (due in theaters in Feb. 2027), but it is naïve of me to be surprised that Netflix, hardly a paragon of Western civilization, is
What our reliance on foreign-born priests says about US Catholics (opens the original)
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The Catholic Church in the United States has a history of relying on foreign-born clergy from its earliest days. Massive immigration from Europe included Catholic clergy, including priests from France and Ireland who served the immigrant Church. Immigrant priests left a great mark on newly developing dioceses in places like California and Florida, where the so-called FBIs (Foreign Born Irish) were until lately an essential factor in pastoral ministry. There are dioceses — especially rural ones —
New West Virginia bishop has a vocation story you wouldn’t believe (opens the original)
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The history of the Catholic Church in America includes contributions from many immigrant bishops. However, the political and ecclesial context of the episcopal installation I recently attended makes it a kind of ecclesiastic Horatio Alger story. Alger specialized in fiction featuring characters who achieved the American dream. His popular stories told how poor boys, through hard work, went from “rags to riches.” He wrote of an American ideal that was practically a myth, or a myth that was the id
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