Several weeks back, I got a nice e-mail from Deacon James Keating, Director of Theological Formation for the Institute of Priestly Formation at Creighton University, asking if I’d like to give a listen to a couple of CDs that he’s produced, one on prayer, another on marriage. I’m a sucker for free stuff, so said,…

Last week I posted this interesting item on deacons who serve as military chaplains in Canada. Now Roman Catholic Vocations has a follow up, with more details from the United States. The item below comes from the AMS (Archdiocese for the Military Services) website: The Archdiocese for the Military Services (AMS) does not provide a…

A reader who is a deacon candidate sent this along to me, and it seems worth some attention. If anyone is wondering how the SSPX feels about deacons and celibacy, take a look: In the fall of 1995, the French bishops met at Lourdes in order to confer together over the pastoral problem created by…

This caught my eye over at the blog Roman Catholic Vocations: the story of a Canadian permanent deacon who is also a military chaplain: In an environment where death and brutality is inevitably part of the process, faith and religion are too. “We’re that light in the darkness, that calm in the storm,” said Maj.…

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