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Lensing Through the Bench
After I posted on the Burke-Majerus Tussle yesterday, I did visit some of my “favorite” Catholic blogs. Naturally, the usual suspects are all over the coach’s speak-out, and in such predictable ways I needn’t have bothered to surf there.
What I did find were the three posts on it at The Deacon’s Bench, plus some other interesting gems of blogging. Like a priest’s rant on coming to church. Most of it is framed in a negative way, like this one:
But the positive points were absolutely great:
And then there’s Deacon Greg’s piece linking a Retrouvaille story. Like the deacon, my wife and I had a very enriching experience on Marriage Encounter. It’s one example of a post-conciliar lay movement that has eclipsed anything and everything the institutional Church has done on marriage since Vatican II. It addresses something the “shalt-not” approach of marriage amendments will never grasp: that marriage as a sacrament and institution is strengthened by being built up into its own magnificent edifice, not from tearing down the structures other people are attempting.
Anyway, the blogroll has a bench, now.
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Todd lives in Minnesota, serving a Catholic parish as a lay minister.