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A germ-free communion dispenser?
By
jmcgee
Yep. I can’t imagine these things popping up at a Catholic mass, but you never know. Anyway: now this invention is getting even more attention because of a lawsuit: A holy war of sorts has broken out in the communion-wafer-dispensing space. A Minnesota marketer of communion-wafer dispensers is accusing its former president of patent…
How do they pick bishops?
By
jmcgee
It’s more complicated than most people realize. You can get a good idea from this primer, which focuses on the process now underway in Scranton: The process for selecting a bishop begins before a see is vacant. During periodic meetings, the bishops in each province vote on well-regarded priests to add to a list of…
A deacon on duty
By
jmcgee
More and more deacons are finding themselves serving as police chaplains — and an Illinois newspaper has a case in point: When police respond to a serious accident or a terrible crime, who responds to the resulting grief? Often, that job falls to a police chaplain. Shock and grief were in abundance on the afternoon…
Will Apple save the world?
By
jmcgee
And now, a confession from my inner geek: I’m a Mac man. I love my MacBook Pro (I’m typing on it right now) and use an iMac at my office at work, and keep my ears plugged into an iPod Touch on the way to work every morning. (I’ve resisted the iPhone, only because I…
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