I picked up my ticket today from the Chancery for the Mass in Yankee Stadium. I'll be sitting in the bleachers, section 39. I'll be flying out of Austin on Thursday and heading back on Monday.
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ZENIT is reporting that Knights of Columbus founder Fr. Michael McGivney has been deemed "Venerable" by the Catholic Church. The decree, authorized by Pope Benedict XVI and published on Saturday, recognizes the heroic virtue of Fr. McGivney and moves up one step closer to the highest honor of the Church—sainthood.
Fr. McGivney, in the 1800's, seeing the plight of widows and children after the death of the husband, founded the Knights of Columbus as a fraternal order for Catholic men so that they can join together, enhance their spirituality and their faith, and very importantly, assist in the financial security of their families. The Knights of Columbus' insurance is one of the highest-rated products in the country and the Knights give billions of dollars to charity for everything from scholarships (one of them helped to finance my freshman year at UT) to the technical equipment and uplink to transmit papal events from the Vatican to the world.
As a card-carrying member, it gives me great pleasure to know that such a group of men exist.
Fr. McGivney, in the 1800's, seeing the plight of widows and children after the death of the husband, founded the Knights of Columbus as a fraternal order for Catholic men so that they can join together, enhance their spirituality and their faith, and very importantly, assist in the financial security of their families. The Knights of Columbus' insurance is one of the highest-rated products in the country and the Knights give billions of dollars to charity for everything from scholarships (one of them helped to finance my freshman year at UT) to the technical equipment and uplink to transmit papal events from the Vatican to the world.
As a card-carrying member, it gives me great pleasure to know that such a group of men exist.
Rocco, the man who can find out anything about anything within the Catholic Church has named his Churchman of the Year for 2007: His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston.
The story, very detailed with a word count just under 6,000, shares with all what I've been hearing from my friends in the Galveston-Houston area—this guy is awesome.
While I've only met the Cardinal once, with him climbing into the minivan I was in, I'll be seeing him again on November 1, 2008 when he celebrates with us the 100th Anniversary of Catholic Campus Ministry at UT, assuming the new meetings he'll be requested to make as a cardinal don't conflict.
Personally, I wonder where Bishop Gregory Aymond of Austin will end up. He might not be Cardinal DiNardo, but he's a solid person as well. Who knows, Archbishop Hughes of New Orleans just turned 75 in early December...
