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From the land of Joseph Smith and Mitt Romney comes this nice piece on the diaconate: Amid all the distress among American Catholics over the shrinking number of priests, one bright fact stands out: Nowhere in the world have Catholic men heeded the call to a separate ordained ministry as in the United States. In…

The folks over at Salon have unearthed some interesting stuff about one of the people on Rudy Giuliani’s staff: a monsignor accused of child sex abuse: Giuliani employs his childhood friend Monsignor Alan Placa as a consultant at Giuliani Partners despite a 2003 Suffolk County, N.Y., grand jury report that accuses Placa of sexually abusing…

More word circulating today that the prime minister is about to take the plunge. According to informed sources, Mr Blair has been readied for this milestone in his spiritual life by a Royal Air Force chaplain, Father John Walsh, who for the past four years has been quietly slipping into Chequers, the prime minister’s country…

A few spoilsports are tsk-tsk-ing about President Bush’s recent gift to Pope Benedict: a walking stick engraved with the 10 Commandments. Some are taking issue with the fact that the version presented to the pontiff isn’t the Catholic version — and others are rolling their eyes because the President referred to His Holiness as simply…
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