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The Deacon's Bench
When Father’s Day came early: a new priest says “Thank you”
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jmcgee
A little while back, I blogged about Deacon Greg Rapisarda, the father of a Father, becoming a Father. This widowed dad of a priest was ordained a priest himself on June 12 — making history, by giving Baltimore its first father and son team of priests. (He was also the only priest ordained for the…
Many clergy unprepared for retirement
By
jmcgee
Some advice to all those young priests being ordained this year: save your stipends. From the AP: Clergy seem an unlikely group to be facing a retirement security crisis. They generally are looked up to by their parishioners as wise and frugal. Their pay, although modest, is enough to get by on. And they typically…
“I overcame these trials because God is calling me”
By
jmcgee
You never can be sure what God has up His sleeve. Consider, for example, the remarkable stories of the two men who were recently ordained priests for Salt Lake City. The saga of Fr. Tai Nguyen really is something: Nguyen, 44, was reared in a devout Vietnamese family. His grandparents were killed by the Viet…
When a priest retires
By
jmcgee
From the Times this morning comes this touching profile of a priest who did so much — and still has more to do: On a recent overcast morning, the Rev. John C. Flynn, an 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest with bright blue eyes and thick white hair, stepped out of his Bronx rectory and into the…
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