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A Catholic soldier: “Sometimes killing is necessary. That doesn’t make it right.”
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deacon greg kandra
The Washington Post’s Elizabeth Tenety has posted a terrific interview this weekend with a Catholic veteran of Iraq who is now a student at Georgetown. As Tenety describes him: “William James Quinn was 24 and a veteran of the Iraq war when he began his freshman year of college. While in Iraq, he worked as…
Democrats react to Cardinal O’Malley with silence
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
The Boston Globe went searching for some reaction, anything, to Cardinal O’Malley’s slap the other day at pro-abortion Democrats. They didn’t find much. The silence, perhaps, was telling: In 1935, Governor James Michael Curley was pushing hard for a bill to create a state lottery. The bill looked like it would sail through the Legislature.…
The bullet in the breviary
By
deacon greg kandra
You can never tell where a vocation will come from, and in Florida Catholic this week there’s a stirring story of a young boy whose life was shaped by one memory of an uncle who was a military chaplain during World War II: If anything will make an impression on a young lad growing up…
Worth a thousand words
By
deacon greg kandra
Relatives of cyclone victims wail in Barishal, 75 miles south of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, Friday, Nov. 16, 2007. Photo by: Pavel Rahman, AP
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