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The Deacon's Bench

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…

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…

“The Journey of the Magi” by James Jacques Joseph Tissot And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed for their country by another way. “It’s important to see that the Magi did go home. They were not asked to leave their home but rather, to approach the familiar from…

A friend dropped me an e-mail earlier today to give me a heads-up about a beautiful new Catholic church that’s being built in Brewster, New York. He thought I’d be especially interested, because I serve at a gorgeous Gothic-style building, completed in 1941. The new church is St. Lawrence O’Toole. A rendering by the architectural…

Including, for this feast, “We Three Kings.” This brings back memories of my childhood, and my Dad’s Philco television with the rabbit ears, and the boxy wooden stereo in the living room that played endless Christmas LPs. (The Firestone Collection was a popular favorite; I think they gave you a free record when you bought…

Could the recession be our salvation? A new poll offers some intriguing insight into how our priorities have shifted: Quietly but noticeably over the past year, Americans have rejiggered their lives to elevate experiences over things. Because of the Great Recession, a recent New York Times/CBS News poll has found, nearly half of Americans said…

That would be this group of sledding sisters. Enjoy. H/T to Big A. 🙂

The sports editors at the New York Times posted two different pictures of the college football star, one online, and another in the print edition. Interestingly, both were variations of the shot below:

Christmas Day, hours after midnight mass, my wife and I hopped a plane to Washington, to spend some time with our families. The flight went smoothly, and a couple hours later we found ourselves in the back seat of a car, headed to my sister-in-law’s in Virginia for dinner. A light snow was falling. Siobhain’s…

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so no one may boast. For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in…
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