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The 100-year-old mother of Father Jerzy Popieliszko, Marianna, center, prays at her son’s grave in front of the St. Stanislaw Kostka church in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 5, 2010, ahead of the Sunday beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko. Popieluszko, the Solidarity chaplain, was tortured and murdered by the communist secret police in 1984. Read more here.

More ordination news — this time, from Rochester, where one of the new deacons is a married former Protestant minister on his way to the priesthood: Years ago, when he was a scuba diver in the Navy, Lon Smith ran out of oxygen at a depth of more than 100 feet. But he survived, and…

It’s about to happen in one Texas diocese: When the 29 diaconate candidates are ordained June 5 at the McNease Convention Center in San Angelo, the diocese will officially have more deacons (80) than priests (58). The graduates of the intensive, five-year course, will represent the fourth diaconate class since the restoration of the permanent…

Well, now. Here’s something you don’t see every day in the New York Times. Check it out: “I spent the summer before college reading Shakespeare and staring out the window and occasionally being a roadie for my friend’s band,” says Eve Tushnet, the celibate, gay, conservative, Catholic writer. That was all good fun, she says…
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