The Diocese of Ogdensburg is grieving this week over the sudden death of a seminarian, Deacon Adam Crowe, who would have been ordained this spring. This tragic news hits especially hard in vocation-strapped Ogdensburg; Crowe was the only candidate for ordination this year. From the Watertown Daily Times: There will be no ordination ceremony at…

I got a nice e-mail the other day from Deacon Timothy Good, from the Diocese of Erie, alerting me to his webpage and blog. Drop and pay a visit: the link is here. And tell him hello from “The Deacon’s Bench”!

When this item popped up on the wires the other day, it sounded like a clever idea: A new website was launched today which endeavors to ignite some Catholic enthusiasm and devotion onto your computer’s desktop. Catholic Desktops wants to help inspire your daily computer life by providing it with fun, cool and faithful computer…

A surprising number of deacons in my diocese are retired cops — an indication, perhaps, of how deeply the call to serve others filters through every aspect of their lives. Now a paper in upstate New York has taken a closer look at this phenomenon, and discovered that it’s not just a Catholic thing: Dressed…

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