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A retired CBS News executive (and a Catholic), on learning of my career change, sent me the following e-mail: Hi Greg! Congratulations on this bold move. 26 years is PLENTY. I’m sure you can get the Church to fill in if you find yourself missing the gastro-intestinal pressure that CBS News generates. Best of good…

Not long ago, I stumbled upon a letter from Thomas Merton, who offered this advice to a man who was thinking about a career change: I would say there is one basic idea that should be kept in mind in all the changes we make in life, whether of career or anything else. We should…

After getting a lot of inquiries over the last few months — including one just today — I decided to add a new sidebar feature to the blog: Books About Deacons. It’s just a start, but I hope to add to it in the weeks and months to come. It’s in the right hand column,…

Today, when nobody was looking, The Deacon’s Bench clocked visitor number 500,000. I did a little Googling and found that’s almost the population of Las Vegas. Wow. Thank you all for making that possible — and for keeping this little engine chugging along, post by post, page by page, for just over a year now.…
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