A hearty Deacon’s Bench welcome to my pal and classmate Deacon Tony Stucchio, who is wading into the blogosphere with his very own blog, Deacon Tony’s Place. I think you’ll like what you find over there: great insights and stories about the saints, along with Tony’s own reflections on our faith. He’s now offering some…

A colleague at work has taken the time and trouble to create this custom-designed avatar of Your Humble Blogger. You can make one for yourself right here. Now you know what all us hard-working journalists do all day when we aren’t sitting around waiting for faxes from the DNC. (That was a joke.)

I can’t remember the last time the editorial pages of a major American newspaper weighed in on the liturgy of the Catholic Church. It’s almost unheard of. But now comes the Chicago Tribune, with a surprisingly heartfelt editorial on, of all things, the Tridentine mass: Pope Benedict has long admired the so-called Tridentine rite that…

If you’re still feeling drowsy this Sunday morning, here’s something to wake you up. Last year, the world got a lot richer. According to the World Wealth Report, compiled by Merrill Lynch, the combined wealth of the world’s richest people climbed 11 percent … to a grand total of 37.2 trillion dollars. The way it…

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