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The Deacon's Bench
Solace in stone
By
deacon greg kandra
How do you commemorate a nightmare? The Los Angeles Times this week has this poignant and, I think, important piece on how various dioceses around the country are honoring and remembering the victims of clerical sex abuse: Oakland’s new Cathedral of Christ the Light stretches skyward, sheathed in gleaming glass that reveals a delicate skeleton…
On vocations: “There are rarely trumpets or midnight visions”
By
deacon greg kandra
If you want to know what it takes to be a vocations director in a busy archdiocese, the Cincinnati Enquirer today offers a rare and revealing glimpse: The Rev. Kyle Schnippel places his prayer book on the table and takes a seat, waiting for the future of the Catholic Church to arrive. It’s an early…
RIP: minister who urged adding “under God” to pledge
By
deacon greg kandra
A man most Americans have never heard of — but who had a profound impact on our counry’s culture — has died. From the Washington Post: The Rev. George M. Docherty, the former pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church who delivered an influential sermon that led to the insertion of the phrase “under…
Three Advents
By
deacon greg kandra
“St. Bernard frequently returns to the idea of the ‘three Advents’ of Christ. The first of these is the one in which He entered into the world, having received a Human Nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The third is the Advent which will bring Him into the world at the end…
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