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But how do you wrap it?
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
What do you give the man who has everything? Some Catholic schools came up with a wonderful idea for the pope’s birthday: Pope Benedict XVI turns 81 on Wednesday during his stop in Washington, D.C., and Catholic school students say they have found the perfect present for which size and color don’t matter, and the…
Barack Obama’s Catholic “kitchen cabinet”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Everybody wants the Catholic vote, and now Barack Obama has even formed a Catholic advisory committee, according to the blog at America magazine: Here’s Obama’s Catholic Kitchen Cabinet: National Co-Chairs Senator Bob Casey; Representative Patrick Murphy (PA-08); Former Congressman Tim Roemer, President of the Center for National Policy; Governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas; Governor Tim…
Meet a “classic stumbling, grumbling, trying-to-sort-it-all-out American Catholic”
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deacon greg kandra
One of the best writers at the New York Times, Dan Barry, has composed a thoughtful, honest and unfailingly down-to-earth essay this Sunday on his experience as an American Catholic. Some Catholics, I know, will question whether he is really all that Catholic to begin with. But I others will recognize his voice as, in…
Are Catholics happy campers?
By
deacon greg kandra
By and large, yes. Days before the pope hits the States, a new survey takes the temperature of his American flock: According to the survey, eight out of 10 people are very satisfied or at least somewhat satisfied with how Pope Benedict leads the Roman Catholic Church. However, the study also found out that, although…
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