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Just in time for Halloween…
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Deacon Greg Kandra
Julie at Happy Catholic has posted the long-awaited movie trailer for the even longer-awaited movie version of Sondheim’s Grand Guignol masterpiece, Sweeney Todd. (There is a tiny Catholic connection, since this near-opera contains the giddy and macabre Act I finale “A Little Priest,” which sets the idea of murder and cannibalism to a merry waltz.)…
What do young Americans think of Christianity? Not much.
By
deacon greg kandra
Are we losing a generation of Christians? That may be one conclusion you can draw from this troubling survey from the Barna Group. It indicates that a surprising number of young people do not have a favorable view of Christianity: As the nation’s culture changes in diverse ways, one of the most significant shifts is…
A new blog, from a deacon candidate
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
I noticed a new website on my sitemeter, checked it out and, lo and behold, it seems to be all about one man’s journey toward ordination as a Catholic deacon. There’s a lot of interesting material here about the author’s particular program — though I don’t think he says where he is, and he goes…
Oops: that’s not the kind of ‘Dialogue’ they meant
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deacon greg kandra
A Florida seminary is reeling from a lot of bad buzz over ads in its quarterly magazine — and now, it seems, it was all a terrible mixup: Whether it was a ghastly prank or a nightmarish mistake is not clear, but somehow eight pages of a Catholic seminary magazine were replaced by ads meant…
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