When I was a Catholic, I was taught from the Catechism of the Catholic Church—not the Bible. … [Read more…] Posted in: A Global Spirituality, Ecumenism, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, One-World Religion, Road to Rome, Signs of the Times, The New Evangelization Tagged: Ecumenism, grand ...
Last April, a video surfaced on YouTube of an unassuming Catholic priest singingLeonard Cohen‘s tragic classic “Hallelujah” at a wedding ceremony (good thing the lyrics were changed). Father Ray Kelly renders the song in near pitch-perfection, letting slip an impish grin at one point when...
In fact, each of the all-time 15 most viewed videos on the site are still big-ticket music videos, and the figures for this year are much the same, but with one alarming further qualifier; of the top 5 most watched videos this year, four are Spanish language songs by L...
The rise of Halloween music 1962 was the year of “The Monster Mash,” a novelty song about the spontaneous party in a mad scientist’s lab. The resurgence in Halloween parties vaulted the popularity of songs like “Haunted House” and the oft-covered “I Put a Spell on You.” ...
His unique dedication to promoting the tradition of the finest of Sacred Music in Catholic Liturgy has brought him innumerable honors. Following Msgr. Keane's retirement in February 1984, he was replaced by Msgr. Thomas Kiefer. Msgr. Kiefer introduced many different parish activates. He started ...
” In it, she also claimed she didn’t like Obama because “he’s gonna take away my right to be a Catholic” (he was not). It was her first taste of professional trollhood, and it worked: The video got 3 million views. Thanks to YouTube’s then-lucrative AdSense program, through...