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It’s no secret that a lot of deacons embark on ministry as a second career, many after retiring. And now, it turns out some retirement communities (most notably in Florida) are becoming thriving havens for deacons: Dana McCarthy lived a life of service for his country for 26 years. Now the retired Navy captain, who…

Here’s a small but significant detail that many have overlooked in writing about the mammoth sex abuse settlement in LA: a number of those who committed abuse were not priests: Church teachers, sports coaches and even unpaid parochial school volunteers make up as much as 10 percent of the assailants, lawyers say. The Associated Press…

From the op-ed page of the New York Times comes a personal critique of the Latin rite mass that is, unsurprisingly, not exactly a rave: In his homily, the pastor, the Rev. C. Frank Phillips, spoke proudly about the Latin Mass, which his parish was the first in Chicago to revive. He announced that it…

While a lot of attention has been focused on Ave Maria, the shiny new Catholic-centric town in Florida, less attention has been focused on the university sprouting up around it. This, too, is the brainchild of zillionaire and pizza magnate Thomas Monaghan. Now a newspaper in Kansas gives us a peek: Rising 10 stories from…
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