When Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol praises his wife’s pudding as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage, he might have included Charles Dickens in his praise. In his description of the pudding’s passage from laundry-copper to the Cratchit’s Christmas feast…
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and