Let's not forget about Orissa

Anyone know of an international aid organization specializing in assisting Indian Catholics?

They need help:

Denouncing what they called a “master plan” to wipe out Christianity, the bishops of India’s troubled Orissa region have written a letter to state’s Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik concerning the persecution of Christians at the hands of Hindu extremists.

Christians play fair, and now 10-15,000 have been forced to flee their homes. That's just a start.

A silver lining to the Peru earthquake disaster

In no way intending to make light of the situation, I'd like to note Rod Dreher's observation that dozens of the fatalities caused by yesterday's earthquake in Peru occurred in a Catholic Church:

ABC News reported just now that the Peru earthquake caused a Catholic church to cave in during mass, killing a hundred people. One way to look at it: if you have to die, wouldn't you want to do it while in church? Another way to look at it: at mass? Come on, God, why?

Though it may seem easy for me to say this from my situation, I've often thought that the fulfillment of the final invocation in the Hail Mary that she be with us "now and at the hour of our death" would be a to die during one one of the Sacraments (presuming I was in a state of grace, etc).

Abp. Foley, in his homily on the Feast of the Assumption this week, made a similar point. He said that whenever he goes to bed, he prays to Jesus "that he might soon see Your mother, and mine."

We should all pray that the faithful who died attending Mass in Peru yesterday will soon enjoy the beatific vision, and be with our Blessed Mother.