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“Angels & Demons”: got to love this lede from the New York Times review
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deacon greg kandra
“Since ‘Angels & Demons’ takes place mainly in the Vatican, and is festooned with the rites and ornaments of Roman Catholicism, I might as well begin with a confession. I have not read the novel by Dan Brown on which this film (directed, like its predecessor, ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ by Ron Howard) is based.…
Want to feel inspired? Watch this
By
deacon greg kandra
This video on YouTube is proving surprisingly popular — and just might spark new interest in one of the Church’s oldest devotions. Watch. It’s just plain great. You can read more about the video here.
Positive signs: a new way of promoting vocations
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deacon greg kandra
The Diocese of Little Rock has launched an innovative method of encouraging vocations: a “signing day,” similar to the kind that is common in professional sports: Three high school students signed letters of intent last week announcing plans to become seminarians this fall for the Diocese of Little Rock. On May 8, Catholic High School…
New deacons for Brooklyn!
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deacon greg kandra
My own diocese is preparing to ordain the first class of deacons since Your Humble Blogger’s, and the hometown paper (The Tablet) has biographies of the candidates. Twenty men will join us, bringing the total number of deacons in my diocese to 185. I’ll be there on May 23rd for the Big Event. I’ll have…
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