Various:

1. A Saint on Capitol Hill - about the statue of Fr. Damien Molokai in the Capitol.

2. A story about monks in California rebuilding an 800-year-old "meeting house" (? I imagine that it's a chapel of some sort) from Spain.

3. And in related news: AmericanPapist reports on monks who are selling CDs of their beautiful chanting in order to build a new monastary because the one they live in is sliding down a hill.