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“Rejoice, full of grace”?
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deacon greg kandra
With all the hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over the new translation of the missal, headed to America’s shores in the next year or two, this news might be of interest: Italians listening to the Scriptures at Mass will no longer hear that it is impossible to serve “God and mammon,” but rather that no one can…
What’s a consecrated virgin?
By
deacon greg kandra
I thought you’d never ask. And, frankly, I’m not so sure myself. But the good people at The Catholic Spirit newspaper in Minnesota do have the answer — along with a few others. They spoke with a youth minister who is about to take the plunge into one of the most mysterious of vocations: Nicole…
Keep hope alive!
By
deacon greg kandra
Despite his recent electoral nosedive in the presidential race, MCPF Stephen Colbert is still very much in the game. It ain’t over yet: Stephen Colbert may have abandoned his brief bid for the White House, but he ended up in a three-way tie for a seat on the Colonial Soil and Water Conservation District Board.…
And the winner is…
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
To the delight of about half the human race, Paul Potts won that TV competition in Britain over the weekend. He now gets to sing for the Queen. Who, undoubtedly, has already watched his original performance again and again on YouTube (if not via The Deacon’s Bench.) Break out your hankies. You can catch his…
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