The Deacon Has Landed!

For the past week he has been fussing with the decor, and now Deacon Greg Kandra has finally loaded the last box onto the trailer. As of now you can find The Deacon’s Bench (and eventually his straggling archives) at his new digs at Patheos (where, apparently, everyone knows your name!). Slide on over (it’s [...]

Deacon Greg is Moving!

He talks about it here: After 15 happy months here at Beliefnet, and several weeks of hand-wringing and finger-drumming while I make up my mind, I’ve decided to pull up stakes and relocate “The Deacon’s Bench” to another site. Beginning next Monday, December 13th, you’ll find The Bench over at Patheos.com. You can get a [...]

Communion; Hand or Mouth?

Yesterday at Mass, my husband noticed that on the floor of our pew, by our feet, was a quarter of an unconsumed Host. He picked it up and consumed it. Discussing it on the way home, my husband chose to think the best, not the worst. “Maybe [at a previous Mass] the wedge was part [...]

Like Sgt Schultz, I know nothing!

For those of you looking for Gateway Pundit and heading over here to ask me about it, the answer is, I am so much in my own little world and busy with my own work that I didn’t even know he had gone! But a quick look at his twitter feed informs that he has [...]

Catholic Blogs & Charity – UPDATED

My Tuesday Column is up; today I pick up on the discussions begun yesterday, at Deacon’s Bench, America Magazine, Inside Catholic and elsewhere over Rachel Zoll’s AP piece on the “purge” mentality exhibited on some (in my view extreme) Catholic blogs. Having blogged about religion and politics for nearly 6 years, I acknowledge that one [...]

Instapundit acu tetigisti

I’m thinking of starting a new game, called Instapundit acu tetigisti, whereby every time one spots Glenn Reynolds managing to succinctly “touch the matter with a needle” on any issue (and he does it a lot) one must take a shot of espresso, or grab a cup of favorite coffee. Today, I sat at my [...]

Bullying, Tolerance & the Disconnect

(Source) Yesterday, I wrote a little about the rampant bullying that is driving too many gay teenage boys and straight teenage girls, to suicide. Today, I look at how that can be, after whole generations have heard the “tolerance” messages since their cradles, and suggest one surprising step that the church could take, in order [...]