{"id":429,"date":"2009-07-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/the-modern-diaconate-in-america-and-in-america.html"},"modified":"2009-07-14T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T08:00:00","slug":"the-modern-diaconate-in-america-and-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/the-modern-diaconate-in-america-and-in-america.html","title":{"rendered":"The modern diaconate in America (and, in “America”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>For your summer beach reading…<\/p>\n

The Catholic newsweekly America<\/a> has just published a special issue on the diaconate, which features a thought or two from Your Humble Blogger<\/a>, along with much saner and smarter people like William Ditewig<\/a> and Scott Dodge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enjoy! It’s great to see this vocation getting so much attention.<\/p>\n

As an added bonus: they’ve reprinted this fascinating 1968 article<\/a> on the restoration of the diaconate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For your summer beach reading… The Catholic newsweekly America has just published a special issue on the diaconate, which features a thought or two from Your Humble Blogger, along with much saner and smarter people like William Ditewig and Scott Dodge. Enjoy! It’s great to see this vocation getting so much attention. 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