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It turns out one of the names being mentioned for Archbishop of New York is MCPF. Personally, I don’t think he’s Irish enough.

The Vatican has upped the ante in the case involving a prominent member of the SSPX who denies the Holocaust: The Vatican demanded Wednesday that a bishop who denied the Holocaust recant his positions before being fully admitted into the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican also said in a statement that Pope Benedict XVI didn’t…

This caught my eye over at the blog Roman Catholic Vocations: the story of a Canadian permanent deacon who is also a military chaplain: In an environment where death and brutality is inevitably part of the process, faith and religion are too. “We’re that light in the darkness, that calm in the storm,” said Maj.…

The Diocese of Ogdensburg is grieving this week over the sudden death of a seminarian, Deacon Adam Crowe, who would have been ordained this spring. This tragic news hits especially hard in vocation-strapped Ogdensburg; Crowe was the only candidate for ordination this year. From the Watertown Daily Times: There will be no ordination ceremony at…

This news just has to stun every reader in the Catholic blogosphere. My prayers go out to Amy and her family at this terrible time.

The U.S. bishops have just released a statement on the SSPX debacle: Statement of Cardinal Francis George, President USCCB Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the personal penalty of excommunication incurred by four schismatic bishops belonging to the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, founded by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. This gesture on the part…

I got a nice e-mail the other day from Deacon Timothy Good, from the Diocese of Erie, alerting me to his webpage and blog. Drop and pay a visit: the link is here. And tell him hello from “The Deacon’s Bench”!

For several days there have been dark suggestions that something was up, and now American Papist confirms it: The Ex LC Blog is claiming that Marcial Maciel is being renounced as the spiritual founder of the Legionaries of Christ, at least in some chapters, due to recent details that have emerged as the result of…

And you can, right here. The Catholic Press Association has some info, too. H/T to the Doc McNamara.

The pope, today, on fasting: Pope Benedict XVI says fasting is important for modern Catholics because it helps make them aware of the deprived state in which many people live. Benedict says that through fasting “we make a statement that our brother or sister in need is not a stranger.” The comment released Tuesday by…
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