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Triple D — Deacon Dr. William Ditewig — posted a fascinating personal remembrance of Ted Kennedy on his Facebook page last night. He told me he wrote it for his family. But with his permission, I post it below: I was serving on the senior staff of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops when…

Yesterday, I posted on the proposed changes in the mass text, and how they might affect the deacon. A couple days earlier, I’d also put up a story about the Bishop of Tulsa deciding to celebrate mass ad orientem. This prompted one commenter to write: The new liturgical rite for the Mass is being finalized.…

An archdiocese with nearly 400 deacons (!) hosted an annual convocation for them recently. The scoop, from the Catholic Herald: Urged to continue being active in home parishes and in ministries supported by the archdiocese, more than 300 deacons and their wives gathered for the annual Deacon Convocation at St. Mary’s Seminary, Aug. 8. The…
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