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The Deacon's Bench

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There’s been much debate around these parts about deacons wearing collars (and even about priests wearing them). Now a seminarian from Long Island has added his voice: In the past decades seminarians were discouraged away from the collar in order to discourage the temptation to clericalism, or from forming a superficial attraction to the trappings…

This has echoes of the story I posted recently from Chicago. From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: Diane Dougherty lives in a neat, white house that she shares with her cats, Pete and Gypsy Rose. She teaches second grade in Fayetteville. She smiles a lot, her eyes flashing with intellect. A public school teacher in Fayetteville,…

Andrew Sullivan has posted this letter from a Catholic mother: My husband and I are raising our sons in the Catholic Church. We are active in my church, I teach religious education, we perform corporeal works of mercy with our fellow parishioners (our food pantry has added 100 families in the last six months). We…

From Pittsburgh comes this very comprehensive look at a man who will soon be called Cardinal: When Cardinal-designate Donald Wuerl receives a red hat Saturday, he will also receive the opportunity to advise the highest levels of the Catholic Church. Those who know the 70-year-old Mount Washington native and former bishop of Pittsburgh say he…

The always-resourceful Frank Weathers over at Why I Am Catholic just posted a couple great videos, dedicated to the martyrs in Iraq. Here’s Bono and U2: One love, one blood, one life, you got to do what you should.One life with each other: sisters, brothers.One life, but we’re not the same.We get to carry each…

“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.” — Dorothy Day. Read more wonderful insights from her, and about her.

After news that some bishops are lining up to swim the Tiber, now it seems some priests are putting on their water wings, too: The Catholic Church will announce this week that 50 Anglican clergy are defecting to Rome following the Church of England’s moves to introduce women bishops. Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the head of…

“Priesthood is not, first and foremost, something we do, but someone we are. It is not an earned trophy. It is about an intimate relationship to the vine who is Christ. The Character of Christ the High Priest is branded on our hearts. We must never imagine that it is ourselves alone, in new-found power…

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