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A reader thought this priest’s name sounded familiar, and then realized that I’d posted a news item on him two years ago. So this morning, this reader dropped me a line to bring me this sobering piece of news: Father Bradley Barber, administrator of St. Joseph Church in Fayetteville, was placed on suspension Aug. 4…

This item crackled over the wire last week while I was on vacation, but it deserves a resounding cheer from The Bench: Training to become a Catholic deacon took William Hisker from theology classes at St. Vincent College and into hospitals, nursing homes and a prison. “I found it very fulfilling,” Hisker said. “I found…

From Denver comes this inspiring tale of a vocation that grew in rocky soil — literally. Take a look at this piece, in the Denver Post: Ron Cattany had a long, full career in natural resources. Next on his agenda are supernatural resources. After 35 years in Colorado state government shepherding minerals, fossil fuels, water…

From the “I Didn’t Know That” Desk comes this poignant news, via CNA: The Kenyan man named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest pupil, who enrolled in classes to learn to read the Bible and converted to Catholicism in the final years of his life, died in Nairobi on Friday…
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