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A thoughtful reader sent this my way this morning: a great overview on the diaconate, from the diocesan newspaper in Richmond. It offers some sound advice and excellent insight for anyone who might be discerning a vocation: Men who are thinking about beginning the journey for formation to becoming a deacon should first ask themselves…

Over at Busted Halo, they’ve posted this compelling and interesting piece by an Anglican priest (with the compelling and interesting name of Astrid Joy Storm). She writes about the Vatican’s recent document on Catholicism as the “one true Church”: Much of the ecumenical work that is going on—and will continue to go on—at the grassroots…

This article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette may have caused people to raise their eyebrows and scratch their heads: a woman as “parish life collaborator”? Whatzat? The article is a bit vague: Sister Dorothy Pawlus, (pictured on the left), greets friends before her installation yesterday as parish life collaborator at St. Bartholomew Parish in Penn Hills.…

While the Left Coast is reeling from the record-breaking settlement in the sex abuse scandal, the faithful on the East, particularly up in Beantown, are feeling a different disorientation and anguish: some drastic proposals for dealing with the worsening priest shortage in the Archdiocese of Boston: “If no proactive archdiocesan-wide approach to future staffing, guided…
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