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The Deacon's Bench
A preacher’s preacher
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deacon greg kandra
Heard any good preaching lately? Priests in Florida evidently did — and the Florida Catholic has a profile of the man responsible: Talk about pressure. Imagine standing for an hour in front of more than 100 priests and talking about preaching a homily. Luckily, Jesuit Father J-Glenn Murray knows how to captivate an audience. During…
Can we be Catholic? Please?
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
More Anglicans may be headed our way. Following up on the report a few days back, a group from Ireland now wants to join the homecoming: Parishioners from three Church of Ireland parishes have joined traditional Anglicans from 12 other countries in requesting that the Catholic Church receive them into full communion. If approved by…
Was Padre Pio a fraud?
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deacon greg kandra
A few weeks ago, some people were running in circles with their hair on fire, saying Mother Teresa was an atheist and a fraud. Now, it seems, they’re doing the same thing about Padre Pio and his stigmata: John XXIII believed Padre Pio, the hugely popular Capuchin monk who was canonised in 2002, was a…
From selling Tabasco to saving souls: the ad executive who became a priest
By
deacon greg kandra
The Via Dolorosa is a long way from Madison Avenue. But this story from Georgia tells of an advertising executive who has just been ordained a priest, and is following the way of Christ, at the age most executives are planning retirement: At 61, most people Fred Sahuc’s age think about slowing down. The former…
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