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The Deacon's Bench
Another wall is breached – UPDATED
By
deacon greg kandra
Just when you thought the world couldn’t sink any lower…it did. Someone took Barack Obama’s prayer out of the Western Wall, and published it. A private communication, between a man and The Almighty, is now public. And a few of Obama’s critics are sniping at the contents. (The Anchoress, who is beside herself with shock…
Here comes the new translation
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Word is trickling out from Rome that the first phase of new English translations of the mass have been approved. It will likely be another 2-4 years before we start hearing them in church. But the article below from CNS gives a preview of things to come: The Vatican has given its approval to a…
Randy Pausch, 1960-2008
By
deacon greg kandra
This gifted man — who was himself a gift — is gone. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor whose final lecture inspired millions, has died of pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch, 47, who turned the lecture into a book, said that no one would have been interested in his…
Suffering from a case of the clap
By
deacon greg kandra
I’ve heard it, you’ve heard it, we’ve all heard it: clapping during mass. I know one or two priests who encourage it (to express appreciation for the choir or to pay tribute to an usher turning 80) but sometimes it just happens, even at the most reverent of liturgies. Now a clapper is ‘fessing up,…
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