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How do they pick bishops?
By
jmcgee
It’s more complicated than most people realize. You can get a good idea from this primer, which focuses on the process now underway in Scranton: The process for selecting a bishop begins before a see is vacant. During periodic meetings, the bishops in each province vote on well-regarded priests to add to a list of…
A deacon on duty
By
jmcgee
More and more deacons are finding themselves serving as police chaplains — and an Illinois newspaper has a case in point: When police respond to a serious accident or a terrible crime, who responds to the resulting grief? Often, that job falls to a police chaplain. Shock and grief were in abundance on the afternoon…
Will Apple save the world?
By
jmcgee
And now, a confession from my inner geek: I’m a Mac man. I love my MacBook Pro (I’m typing on it right now) and use an iMac at my office at work, and keep my ears plugged into an iPod Touch on the way to work every morning. (I’ve resisted the iPhone, only because I…
“They departed by another way…”
By
jmcgee
“The Journey of the Magi” by James Jacques Joseph Tissot And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed for their country by another way. “It’s important to see that the Magi did go home. They were not asked to leave their home but rather, to approach the familiar from…
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