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A regular visitor to The Bench, Pete Bond, sent me this wonderful bit of news: Saturday, he and four other men will become the newest members of the diaconate family in California: As most of the faithful are aware, “Gaudete” means “joyous”…and so it is with great joy that the Diocese of San Bernardino announces…

Grim news from the Archdiocese of Washington, where a deacon has been charged with sex abuse: Police have charged a Roman Catholic deacon with incest for allegedly abusing an underage female relative in the 1960s and 1970s. Dan Paul Stallings has served as deacon at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Silver Spring since…

Conveniently — and meaningfully — the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts ordained new deacons yesterday, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception: Springfield Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell ordained six men as permanent deacons of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield during a ceremony yesterday St. Michael’s Cathedral. Ordained were Gary Doane of the Bondsville section…

What’s it like to be a seminarian today? This piece from a paper in Salt Lake City profiles one seminarian — who, it turns out, is the son of a deacon: “Whether you’re new or almost finished with your seminary education, you’re always very sensitive to the feeling, the question: ‘Am I supposed to be…
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