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A Catholic journalist in the Washington Post is asking the question that may be on a few Catholic minds these days: is voting for Barack Obama a sin? Like most Maryland Democrats, I voted for Sen. Barack Obama in the recent Potomac Primary. By doing so, according to the leaders of my church, I put…

Hot on the heels of this news about permanent deacons and the Latin rite comes another news nugget, this from a British paper, about training seminarians in the old rite: Seminaries throughout the Catholic world will have to teach candidates how to celebrate the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass, it emerged last weekend. A letter from…

A reader dropped me an e-mail, wondering if an ex-priest who was married could become a permanent deacon. I told him I’d never heard of such a thing happening, and thought it highly unlikely. Curious, I dragged down my copy of the Code of Canon Law and found this, at Can. 1041: The following are…

It’s wonderful when anyone reaches a 50th anniversary — in marriage or in the priesthood. Florida Catholic profiles a priest about to reach that milestone: Father Raymond Hubert, who will soon be honored on the 50th anniversary of his ordination, has led three distinct lives in his time as a priest: as a missionary, a…
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