Because I like to highlight good priests (there are so many out there, most of whom you’ll never know about because often it’s only the bad one who get p.r.– my college classmate Kevin Cherry put it well here), this post is to say “Happy Birthday” today to our friend Fr. George W. Rutler.

This post is both for him, to encourage every other good parish priest reading (thank you!), and for any Catholic, Christian, or other interested soul who would care to know that on Good Friday (creeping up on us soon), Fr. Rutler will be going through his annual meditation on the seven last words of Christ (there’s a book too) at his parish church here in Manhattan. Details here.