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The Deacon's Bench
They did it — and here’s the proof
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jmcgee
I asked, you answered. A sharp-eyed reader responded to my bleg for a snapshot of the Archdiocese of New York’s new deacons. Here it is, below. “Not the best picture,” my e-mailer confessed, “but it shows everyone.” Thank you!
Words to live by
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jmcgee
“All things are possible in the world where poor Jewish carpenters rise from the dead!” — My friend the God Googler, Mike Hayes, in an e-mail to me. I needed to hear that today. Thanks, MIke.
In the mail: the sound of silence
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jmcgee
A longtime reader writes: The time in the ‘comment cloister’ has been a journey. It has caused me to consider my own quick-to-judge tendencies. Following the way I tend to see so many things – neither all good or all bad, I will say that in my own (good-i-think) desire to have real conversation I…
A deacon’s proposal for public penance — UPDATED
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jmcgee
A deacon in Alaska sent me the letter below and, with his permission, I’m printing it here in full. I’d like to hear what readers, especially deacons and priests, think of this proposal for public penance: As I know you have, I’ve been following the heartbreaking news as it has broken regarding the clerical sex…
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