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The Deacon's Bench

So says the usually reliable Thomas “American Papist” Peters: I am hearing, on reliable authority, that the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles, Roger Mahony, has approved a coadjutor bishop recently selected for him by the Holy See. This news – and the name – will be publicly announced “soon.” This new bishop, once announced and…

…very often is a woman. From National Catholic Reporter’s John Allen: When talk turns to “women in the church,” the normal association in the public mind is with debates over the ordination of women to the priesthood. Because there’s been no movement on that front, the tendency is often to assume the “women’s question” is…

I was pleased to find this little gem over at YouTube: a Pixar classic short, “For the Birds.” If anyone needs reminding of why the geniuses at Pixar are, in fact, geniuses — or why there are things like whimsy and laughter in the world — take three minutes, watch this and feel better.  Sometimes…

How’s this for a beautiful love story? From a paper in Duluth: Guests at the Bogen-Nicholson wedding in June will have an interesting tidbit when they describe the couple’s big day: The bride and groom served peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Duluth native Leah Bogen and fiance Will Nicholson were eating breakfast and chatting about…

This seems a fitting hymn for this moment in time: the Concord Pastor has a widget up on his blog that plays this for the people of Haiti. The video interpretation below, beautifully rendered by John Michael Talbot, says it all.

The esteemed George Weigel is steamed. In his latest column, the writer and pundit takes aim at a moment in the mass that belongs, properly, to the deacon — and which, in Weigel’s view, often leaves much to be desired. It’s the Prayers of the Faithful. A snip: This past Dec. 28, I was jolted…

The Connecticut deacon who was rescued from the rubble in Haiti had a chance to tell his story yesterday: Prayers filled his thoughts for 10 hours as Chuck Dietsch awaited rescue or death. All around him, Dietsch heard screams. People were in pain or mourning as they discovered the bodies of loved ones killed from…

The new senator-elect from Massachusetts is not Catholic, but he has a long-standing relationship with an order of nuns: The family worships at New England Chapel in Franklin, a member of the Christian Reformed Church of America, a Protestant denomination, but has developed a special relationship with an order of Cistercian Catholic nuns at Mt.…

With Christmas behind us, and Lent still weeks away, Vatican observers have too much time on their hands. So, naturally, they’re bird-watching.   Specifically, they’re keeping an eye out for cardinals. From the Washington Times: Although the Vatican’s anticipated announcement naming a new contingent of U.S. archbishops to the College of Cardinals likely is months away,…

Words just can’t do justice to this phenomenal video: a man watching as his wife is rescued after six heart-stopping days. This is a love story for the ages.
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