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God Bless You, Gesundheit, Salud!

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I remember it like it was yesterday. The first Mass I ever served as a deacon following ordination. Just before the entrance procession, the pastor leaned over to me and said, “You’re all full of the grace of holy orders … why don’t you give the final blessing at the end of Mass?” I wasn’t Read More

The Deacon’s Role in Accompanying Those with Same-Sex Attraction

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Courage International was founded in the Archdiocese of New York in 1980, when Cardinal Terence Cooke asked Father John F. Harvey, OSFS, to create a pastoral outreach for Catholics who experience same-sex attractions (SSA) who wanted to live chastely. Building on his expertise as a moral theologian and his 36 years of priestly ministry, Father Read More