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From the Wall Street Journal comes this intriguing feature about a chaplain and the non-believer charged with protecting him: They say there are no atheists in foxholes. There’s one on the front lines here, though, and the chaplain isn’t thrilled about it. Navy Chaplain Terry Moran is steeped in the Bible and believes all of…

I’m delighted to welcome to the blogosphere my friend and sometime partner-in-crime, Deacon Doctor Bill Ditewig (Triple D). (Pause here while all those wearing dalmatics offer a standing ovation.) He’s just launched a shiny new blog on the diaconate called “Deacon’s Today: Dalmatics and Beyond,” and it promises to be a treasure trove of deacon-y…

Here’s a story that sounds familiar, about a successful media professional who walked away from a high-profile career to work for the Church. From the Indianapolis Criterion: She has met backstage with Taylor Swift, talked with Garth Brooks, had her picture taken with Carrie Underwood and spent time with so many country music singers, including…

One of the regular bloggers over at America, Fr. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., has asked his parish deacon to “guest blog” for a couple weeks, to offer some personal insights into his life as a deacon and his ministry in the Church. Deacon Michael Iwanowicz was ordained in the first class of permanent deacons in…

I caught this Sunday night during “Mad Men” (which, if you missed it, was the season’s best episode so far). Anyway: this is the latest TV trailer for the M. Night Shyamalan thriller “Devil,” and it may be a part of TV history: quite possibly, the first commercial to feature the “Hail Mary” in its…

Just in time for Labor Day, when millions of workers are taking a day off, comes this look at who — or what — might replace them. The article explains the idea behind these robot thingies. But you have to see one in action for yourself, below.

This news broke mid-day and bears watching: Pope Benedict XVI is monitoring the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning and has not ruled out getting involved through diplomatic channels, the Vatican said Sunday. As he has in the past in humanitarian cases, the pope would intervene if asked by authorities in…

“Of the astonishing and flattering number of people who wrote to me when I fell so ill, very few failed to say one of two things. Either they assured me that they wouldn’t offend me by offering prayers or they tenderly insisted that they would pray anyway. Devotional Web sites consecrated special space to the…

Last winter, I posted this story about a Buffalo, New York church moving, brick by brick, to Georgia. Now, a similar move is about to happen in Chicago: Church congregations have been known to migrate from the city to the suburbs. But rarely has a church edifice made the journey. The former St. John of…
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