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Man’s best friend loses a friend
By
deacon greg kandra
Animal lovers everywhere have lost a special soul: the founding abbot of The Monks of New Skete, Father Laurence Mancuso has passed away, from complications of injuries suffered in a fall. He was 72. The fabled Monks of New Skete pioneered a sane and loving way of raising dogs, and their hilltop monastery in upstate…
That blogger from Beantown
By
deacon greg kandra
One of my favorite archbishops, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, has been blogging for a while now. Friday, he took it upon himself to blog about his meeting with Pope Benedict, where he and several others were briefed on the motu proprio, which will permit more people to celebrate the Tridentine rite of the mass: The Holy…
Annullment: “Like being stretched between two galloping horses”
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deacon greg kandra
Most Catholics probably know someone who has been through the agony of annullment. It’s not pretty. But it’s not supposed to be. Marriage is serious business — a sacrament — and ending one takes serious thought, effort and no small amount of interior reflection. And now a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times has weighed in…
A career that’s second-to-nun
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deacon greg kandra
My wife was taught by Holy Cross Sisters down in Maryland, and we get a lot of e-mails from them. The e-mail we received yesterday struck me as both important — and savvy. Here’s part of it: The Holy Cross Sisters USA Province headquartered in Merrill, WI, recently took action at their Provincial Chapter to…
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