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And don’t forget to dig out any spare change from the sofa cushions
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deacon greg kandra
Every now and then I stumble across a story that just leaves me speechless. This is one of them, from the Los Angeles Times: For 43 years, Sister Angela Escalera has lived and often worked out of her order’s small convent on this city’s east side, helping the area’s many poor and undocumented residents with…
“And we call this liturgical color, ‘Kiwi'”
By
deacon greg kandra
Another creative choice in liturgical fashion, from Austria.
Out of Africa: “Our seminary is full”
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deacon greg kandra
It’s no secret the Church in Africa is cranking out vocations like crazy. The item below, from the Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), just underscores the point. The rector of Uganda’s seminary also offers some interesting contrasts between the Church in Africa, and the one in Europe: Father Aquirinus Francis Kibira,…
On this rock: from the Beatles to Benedict and beyond
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deacon greg kandra
I can think of a few people who might disagree, but writer Mark Judge, in the Washington Post, makes a compelling argument that rock and roll is a distinctly Catholic form of art: You don’t need to work at MTV to realize that love – and it’s loss – is the great theme of popular…
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