This obituary from the Philadelphia Daily News caught my eye: it’s about a priest who was ordained late in life and, in a rare exception, served as a permanent deacon for a number of years before entering the priesthood: The Rev. Msgr. Albert V. Norrell was a priest before he became a priest. That is,…

A man who might well be reckoned a giant in the diaconate community has left us. A suburban Chicago paper takes note: One of the most influential figures in the Archdiocese of Chicago’s program to prepare men to become ordained deacons has died. John Pistone, a 30-year deacon at St. Thomas of Villanova Church in…

How’s this for an April Fool? Those who have been waiting breathlessly for Your Humble Blogger to appear on camera — I know it’s all my wife can talk about (not) — can now see my debut right here. Just click on “video” and my little tour of my parish, Our Lady Queen of Martyrs,…

“Early ‘markers’ [of Obama’s record on the life issues] are not encouraging in this regard but hope needs to spring eternal and while Notre Dame may have acted way too early and too generously, I am more alarmed that the rhetoric being employed is so uncivil and venomous that it weakens the case we place…

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