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There’s a renewed push in many parishes to lure back Catholics who have wandered away from the faith. And this item, about one deacon’s efforts, illustrates one move underway in Memphis: Dressed in cream-colored robes, beneath a portrait of the crucifixion, Deacon Jack Conrad radiates religious devotion. Assisting with a recent service at St. Ann…

Another married man, a convert, is about to become a priest. The local paper in San Angelo, Texas, has the scoop on a cleric named Waldo: Waldo Emerson “Knick” Knickerbocker, a married former Episcopalian minister, will be ordained as a Roman Catholic deacon at 11:15 a.m. Sunday at St. Theresa Church in Junction. The ceremony…

With the Feast of the Holy Family on Sunday, the Catholic Standard in Washington has a wonderful glimpse at how one family aspiring to holiness produced two priests — one of whom is about to be ordained a bishop. And their father? He was a deacon. Read the remarkable story of Barry Knestout: Sometimes as…

The man who coined the phrase “moral majority” died last week — but most Americans may not have known that he was a Catholic and a deacon. The fine blog Get Religion has more: The most important thing to remember about the late Paul M. Weyrich is that he was a moral and cultural conservative,…
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