Chicago nun gets her own baseball card

Chicago, Ill., Apr 8, 2019 / 12:15 pm (CNA).- A religious sister can expect that if she is faithful to her vows, fervent in prayer, and zealous in following Jesus, her face might someday wind up on the front of a holy card.

But few religious sisters expect ever to find themselves on a baseball card.

Sister Mary Jo Sobieck, OP, though? She’ll premiere on a Topps baseball card this summer.

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Awesome!

I mean, this is fantastic on so many levels.

Don't sleep on Sister Mary Jo's curve ball 🔥 pic.twitter.com/GMBqLJaUUh

— ESPN (@espn) August 19, 2018

The Hillbilly Thomists

Published in 1952, Wise Blood is a Southern Gothic novel by Catholic author Flannery O’Connor. Many early critics interpreted the work as a tale of despair and darkness. In a 1955 response to one letter writer, O’Connor objected: “Everybody who has read Wise Bloodthinks I’m a hillbilly nihilist, whereas I would like to create the impression . . . that I’m a hillbilly Thomist.”

Thus was born the name of a banjo-bearing band of bluegrass-loving brothers.

The Hillbilly Thomists are a group of Dominicans friars (ten brothers, of whom two are priests) belonging to the Province of St. Joseph and living at their Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. It is also the title of the group’s CD released last month (available here).

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Dominican Sisters in FINALE of American Bible Challenge!

I'm going to have to tune in!

Update:
The show actually airs at 9pm ET on DirecTV channel 233.

via Father Z

Don’t forget to watch the Dominican Sisters of Mary competing for the Grand Prize ($100,000) on the American Bible Challenge this Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 7:00 PM on GSN (Game Show Network, Ch. 71 Direct TV). Their winnings will go to a retirement fund for retired nuns. Let’s pray they win in this grand finale.

Wisconsin nuns signed, circulated Walker recall petitions

Image: From iverifytherecall.com, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, based in Elm Grove, Wis., also signed the petition. View this particular recall form here.

From Breitbart.com:

As the Catholic Church takes action to counter the left-wing drift of American nuns, Breitbart.com has learned that hundreds of nuns are involved in the left's campaign to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R)--in favor of pro-choice Democratic challengers.

The nuns who have circulated and signed petitions include sisters from convents and other Catholic institutions across the state.

Over 100 signatures, for example, all of female voters, as verified through iverifytherecall.com, list the same address as a Dominican institution in Sinsinawa, WI, in the southwestern portion of the state. Representatives of that organization could not be reached for comment.

One Catholic official at a school with a large number of signatories stressed that Catholic organizations advocate for the poor and downtrodden, but do not take political positions, and that what their individual members do is up to them alone.

Though many Catholic voters support Walker, and roughly 40% of Wisconsin Republican primary voters are Catholic, there is some Catholic opposition to Walker's collective bargaining reforms among those partial to the "social justice" movement within the Catholic Church. Democrats are hoping to tap into that opposition.

Walker is Catholic, as is his most likely Democratic challenger, former congressman and former Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, who has been criticized for opposing the ban on federal funding for abortion. Other Democratic candidates--Kathleen Falk, Doug LaFollette, and Kathleen Vinehout--appear to be pro-choice.

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Couple items of comment... Breitbart linked to the Badger Catholic (the Barrett pro-choice item)! And Walker isn't Catholic -- he is the son of a Baptist preacher and attends a Protestant church. Also, Archbishop Weakland signed the recall petition, so it's not too much of a surprise to learn that Wisconsin nuns did so as well. As Matt pointed out earlier this week, the Catholic country club has been open for quite a while.

St Dominic, ora pro nobis!

The origins of the Rosary are generally attributed to Saint Dominic de Guzman (1170-1221 A.D.), a Spaniard who founded the religious Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans. As depicted in the picture on the left, St. Dominic received the concepts of particular prayers that form the Rosary as a gift of religious inspiration from the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Milwaukee born Dominican devoted to Catholic education dies

A truly great teacher, Fr. Kurt Pritzl, O.P., died last night. Born in Milwaukee, he was a product of Catholic schools there and dedicated his life as a Dominican priest to just that — Catholic education.

I was blessed to have him as a professor while I was a student at the Catholic University of America, where he would become dean of the School of Philosophy, and he has been a kind influence in the years since.

Besides his dedication to the Church and learning, Fr. Pritzl was a man so full of life. Even in the midst of illness, whenever I encountered him or corresponded with him, he seemed to be running on the Holy Spirit — his energy and presence was beyond anything of this world.

Fr. Pritzl continues to inspire, as he, I pray, is in the warm embrace of the Father he so loved and brought so many closer to through knowledge, faith, and love. Most especially love. Everyone was his brother and sister in Christ and it was probably hard not to notice that — in his presence, in his words, in his thoughtfulness. In the faith he lived and exuded.

Fr. Pritzl leaves us this with this, from a homily to a gathering of CUA in that beautiful crypt church next door, on the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas last year:

Saint Thomas Aquinas’ life in its holiness shows us that love, real love, divine, unconditional love, actually happens in human lives. God grant that it happen in our lives, even in our lives here together in this university, for as long as we are granted to stay here.

I’m confident I saw a similar display in another teacher, who died last night …

Rest in peace, Fr. Pritzl.

Heaven is what he lived for.

CatholicVote: Kathryn Lopez

I guess for some, education is more than the money, more than self centered interest.