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Anne Rice’s journey: “I trusted that He would help me”
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deacon greg kandra
Just before Easter, the writer Anne Rice, whose new novel on Christ has just been published, posted an item in the Washington Post’s On Faith section about her own faith journey. An excerpt: Why did faith come back to me? I don’t claim to know the answer. But what I want to talk about right…
Happy Birthday, dear Flannery
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deacon greg kandra
One of the most influential and enduring Catholic writers in America remains Flannery O’Connor. Today is her birthday. And, over at Busted Halo, a writer has taken a pilgrimage to her fabled Georgia homestead Andalusia: You’ll find her along the fence line of Memory Hill Cemetery, to the left. The grave sits in a family…
The house that Benny built
By
deacon greg kandra
This is the first glimpse at the design for Yankee Stadium’s papal mass on April 20. You can read more about it via the National Catholic Register right here. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack. I don’t care if I never get back…
A pastor’s toughest job
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deacon greg kandra
Here’s an interesting perspective on life in the pulpit, from several preachers in Pennsylvania. This comes to us from the York Daily Record/Sunday Times: In seminary, Greg Lindsey imagined that sitting at a dying man’s side would be the most difficult thing a church pastor is called to do. Nine months into his first job,…
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