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The Deacon's Bench

This couple can tell you.  You don’t see many stories like this — and it’s truly something to celebrate. From the Catholic Review in Baltimore: Edwin Becker was 19 when he decided that he couldn’t live his life without Gertrude. At 17, Gertrude just knew she wanted to be with him. So, on Sept. 7,…

Pontifical North American College seminarians Keith D. Romke of the Diocese of Rockford, Ill., and Mark R. Payton of the Archdiocese of Perth, Australia, are seen after being ordained  deacons in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 7. Thirty seminarians from the U.S. national seminary were ordained deacons. (Photo by CNS/Paul Haring). 

There’s an update on that controversial art exhibit in Colorado: A Montana woman has been charged with criminal mischief after allegedly taking a crowbar to a controversial art museum display in Colorado that critics say portrays Jesus Christ receiving oral sex from another man. Kathleen Folden, 56, of Kalispell, Mont., was arrested Wednesday and accused…

“My very dear brothers and sisters, whoever works in the media, if he does not wish to be “a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1) — as Saint Paul would say — must have well-rooted in himself the underlying option that enables him to deal with the things of the world placing…

That’s the eye-opening message on a billboard that’s just gone up in Michigan. Check it out below. H/T

That seems to be what happened, according to this account: A Virginia Beach TV weatherman has been fired — and the reasons management gave him were all related to his after-hours ministry. Jon Cash, a 21-year employee of WAVY-TV, appeared on the station’s highly rated morning show, but also traveled as an evangelist preaching at…

It’s unfolding in a small city in North Carolina, and has prompted a remarkable — and remarkably unified — response: A holy war is brewing in a small North Carolina city, where the Christian flag seems to be flying everywhere. A meeting of the King, N.C., City Council was packed on Monday with dozens of…

The “Vice Pope” had a few things to say to a gathering of Catholic journalists yesterday — including a call for them to remain independent of any particular political agenda: The richness of a Catholic journalist is the Gospel he communicates; his support is God, says Benedict XVI’s secretary of state. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone affirmed…

Their crime? Evidently, just being Catholic. From AFP: Saudi police raided a secret Catholic mass in Riyadh last week and arrested a dozen Filipinos and a Catholic priest, charging them with prosyletising, a local daily reported on Wednesday. The raid took place as some 150 Filipinos were attending the mass in a Riyadh rest house…

While countless churches around the country were blessing animals for the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, some of the faithful who live on the Pacific coast were offering prayers of blessing for the waters whose name means “peaceful”: Hundreds of Californians joined surfing priests and religious leaders from multiple faiths Sunday to honor the…
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