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The Deacon's Bench
The sins that only the pope can forgive
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deacon greg kandra
Few Catholics are aware of it, but now there’s word that the Vatican is lifting the veil on a secretive panel which deals with only the most serious of sins: One of the Vatican’s most secrecy shrouded tribunals, which handles confessions of sins so grave only the pope can grant absolution, is giving the faithful…
In England, Catholic weddings take the plunge
By
deacon greg kandra
From across The Pond comes this sobering news about the startling drop in Catholic marriages: The number of marriages in Roman Catholic churches in Britain has fallen by a quarter since the start of the decade to just 9,950 last year. This is a 24 per cent fall on the figure for 2000, when there…
Catholic teacher loses job for marrying without annulment
By
deacon greg kandra
A Catholic school teacher in Texas has just lost her job — and is now considering suing the school. The issue: an annulment. Or lack thereof. The local paper has the story: Less than a week before Marquis LaFortune was supposed to marry her fiance, the principal of the downtown Catholic high school where she…
Denying communion Down Under
By
deacon greg kandra
This happens so rarely, you can’t help but sit up and take notice. A government official in Australia was denied communion on Christmas Eve. And, it seems, it was all a big mistake. From the local press: Attorney-General Rob Hulls was refused communion in a Catholic church over the State Government’s Bill to legalise abortion.…
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