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The Deacon's Bench

Exhibit A in how not to practice the New Evangelization.

And these ironic ads just might do the trick. It’s amazing how things were sold way-back-when. Like, for example, cellaphane. Perfect for mothering. Or, maybe, smothering?

No need to wonder any longer. This guy has it figured out. It’s a hoot.

Boston’s Fenway Park has witnessed some great moments in sports history. But I don’t think anything can compare with what happened there two summers ago. The Red Sox were hosting Disability Awareness Night – to honor and salute fans who might have some kind of handicap. The organizers selected a young man named Peter Rometti,…

Well, here’s another of those “I-Had-No-Idea” moments. I had no idea that President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, is Catholic. From U.S. News & World Report: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is not predisposed to showing his personal side. So I was surprised to hear him invoking his Roman Catholicism in today’s White House…

Those are the two words used by the Vatican to describe the meeting between President Obama and Pope Benedict. NCR’s John Allen has details: When President Barack Obama came calling on Pope Benedict XVI today, the two men enjoyed a “truly cordial” encounter, according to a Vatican spokesperson, but at the same time there was…

From the Marian Oddities Desk, a report that some of the faithful in Ireland are seeing the Blessed Mother in a tree stump: Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the…

From Catholic News Service: Pope Benedict XVI welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama to the Vatican July 10, and the two discussed world issues addressed at the Group of Eight summit. As they met, Obama told the pope, “It’s a great honor; thank you so much.” The two sat down at a desk in the papal…

An alert reader spotted this item and sent it my way: the compelling story of a New York deacon’s experiences as a prison chaplain, which he’s now chronicled in a book: David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz attended his first religious seminar at Clinton Correctional Facility escorted by then-chaplain Donald Dashnaw. “He just wanted to get…

Strange happenings in Austria, where a woman who claims ordination as a Catholic bishop is grabbing the spotlight — and the Body of Christ. Read on: The Sunday worship celebration in the Parish of St. Peter in Linz did not make the excommunicated “Bishop” Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger as happy as she would have wished. Bishop Ludwig…
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