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The Deacon's Bench

Did you know you could do this? Will wonders never cease. A reader sent this my way. Try it.

A little celebrity news from Down Under: Reformed bad boy Mark Wahlberg is dedicated to attending church each day — even during his hectic Australian tour with Will Ferrell to promote their new film The Other Guys. Wahlberg, 39, went to St Mary’s Cathedral Catholic church in inner Sydney yesterday wearing his golf clothes after…

A remarkable odyssey has finally come to a close. From the Louisville Courier-Journal: In the annals of people who returned to their childhood faith after a time of alienation, few have had a longer sojourn than James O’Bryan. The Louisville native has reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church after being away from it for more…

While much of the news attention these days is focused on the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, another place of worship near the 9/11 attacks has gone largely unnoticed. From ABC News: Sometimes misidentified as the “Pentagon Mosque,” the non-denominational Pentagon Memorial Chapel maintained by the Pentagon Chaplain’s Office is where department employees who practice…

This website today posted a few answers — though it’s riddled with some pretty basic mistakes. (“Transitory” deacons? “Deaconate”?) Check it out and see what you think.

Your Humble Blogger is about to take a little down time — blogging will be light for a couple weeks — but before I go, here’s a nice picker-upper from The Anchoress: It’s that time of year again, when postulants receive the habit, novices take their first vows and some finally arrive at the long-hoped-for…

Friday, many in the sports world were stunned when 49ers running back Glen Coffee announced he was hanging up his cleats and quitting football. Now he’s explaining why, to reporter Matt Barrows: I called Glen Coffee at his Los Gatos apartment at 8:30 this morning. When I told him who I was, he said he…

A reader who saw this item about a Catholic actor with values pointed me to this piece about a woman who made her name on “Saturday Night Live,” and is now making a name for herself as an actress of decidedly Catholic convictions: A few years ago the CUA-trained actress Siobhan Fallon Hogan landed a…

The woman with the iconic first name appears to be fading fast. From Reuters: Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, a fixture in Hollywood for six decades, asked that a priest read her the last rites on Sunday, following hospitalization two days earlier due to complications from hip surgery. The 93-year-old Gabor, whose string of movies, television…

Does anyone remember anything quite like this happening before? From the BBC: Thousands of Roman Catholic pilgrims were evacuated from the Sanctuary of Lourdes in France after a bomb scare which turned out to be a hoax. The threat came as 30,000 worshippers gathered for the annual Feast of the Assumption, one of the pilgrimage…
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