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A precedent for the president: more Obama events are opening with a prayer
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deacon greg kandra
Those who are monitoring the presence of God in the public square might want to take a look at this: When Barack Obama’s presidential campaign contacted Ryan Culp last year to ask him to deliver a prayer at an Obama rally in Culp’s native Elkhart, Ind., the high school wellness teacher declined. “I’m a conservative…
“A guy’s guy” heads to New York
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deacon greg kandra
I missed this when it ran the other day, but this Times piece on Archbishop Dolan zeroes in on part of his appeal — and why he just might be very good news for vocations: The big recruiters talk about him as if he were future Hall-of-Fame material — the kind you build organizations around.…
A closed parish takes its sermons to the street
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deacon greg kandra
As many people know, New York is one of the archdioceses that has been feeling the pain of parish closings. And some parishioners aren’t taking it sitting down (or even kneeling). From the New York Times: The closing of their church was among the more devastating of events to have struck the congregants of Our…
Worth a thousand words
By
deacon greg kandra
Vice President Joe Biden attending an event in Washington yesterday. PHOTO: by Getty Images/Win McNamee
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