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And he’s not as young as you may think: The Hong Kong diocese has ordained its youngest ever permanent deacon at the age of 45. Stephen Kwok Ping-fai was one of a group of four ordained at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on July 24. Bishop John Tong Hon presided over the ordination Mass…

Many know him only as the University of Illinois professor who was sacked for explaining Catholic teaching on homosexual behavior. But the backstory is very compelling — and his life up to that point anything but ordinary: The University of Illinois scholar who lost his job over his exposition of Catholic teachings has walked a…

Not really a surprising bit of news — but a very nice one nonetheless: Deacon Jack Sullivan, from the Archdiocese of Boston Massachusetts, is to proclaim the Gospel at the Cardinal Newman’s Beaitifcation Mass to be celebrated by Pope Benedict, at Cofton Park Birmingham, on Sunday 19 September. Rev Sullivan was miraculously cured from a…

A BBC blogger is raising the possibility, after noting a couple other names: If not Chris Patten or Ann Widdecombe, then perhaps Paul Murphy, the former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland — a devout Catholic and a papal knight — will be approached. And if they wish to stick with a Northern Irish theme,…
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