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What hath God wrought?
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
That was Samuel F.B. Morse’s first message, sent by telegraph in 1844. Imagine what he’d think of this little miracle of technology: Anyone curious to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes can now do it without leaving your desk. Drop by the Lourdes website and you can see real-time webcams of the famous grotto. H/T to…
Whatever happened to Danielle Rose?
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Longtime readers may remember that last year I posted the inspiring story of a popular Christian singer named Danielle Rose, who was leaving a thriving music career to become a nun. Well, nearly a year later, we have an update, courtesy The Anchoress. There’s word that she has just been accepted into the notiviate: Today…
Sarah Palin, book-burner? Not so much
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
All you Sarah Palin groupies out there — those who love her and those who don’t — should flock over to Newsweek. The good people at Factcheck.org have just done a little fact-checking on the GOP vice presidential candidate, separating fact from fiction and busting a few common myths that have been ricocheting around the…
Backing Barack: a young Catholic explains why
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
I stumbled across this essay this morning and thought: “Well here’s something you don’t see every day.” It’s about how a Steubenville pro-life EWTN-watching, daily-mass-attending young Catholic came to support Barack Obama: I started my freshman year at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, when I was barely 17, skipping my senior year of high school…
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