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What a journey!  It’s the first Catholic ordination in one Pennsylvania community — and it’s one for the history books: St. Joseph’s Church in York will be the setting on Saturday for an event sure to go down in local religious history, and perhaps more. Paul Schenck, born into a Jewish family, eventually ordained as…

It happened at the National Shrine this past weekend — and the Catholic News Agency article spotlights a deacon and his family: More than 580 couples renewed their marriage vows at a Sunday Mass celebrated by Archbishop of Washington Donald W. Wuerl at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Couples offered…

Stories like this one in Kentucky are rare, but not unheard of. But it’s big enough that is made the local paper: James Reinhart is accustomed to being called dad, grandpa or deacon, but he’s still getting accustomed to his new title. “I’m not used to being called Father Jim,” Reinhart said Sunday as he…

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…
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