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The Deacon's Bench
After 62 years, still in tune with each other
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deacon greg kandra
For all those couples celebrating an anniversary in this month of weddings — and all those who just need a quick day-brightener — get a load of this. A married couple, together for 62 years, tickles the ivories in the atrium of the Mayo Clinic. Enjoy.
Doctor who treated her own breast cancer in Antarctica dies
By
deacon greg kandra
This may seem a little off-topic — nothing church-y here — but I remember this woman’s story vividly. Like countless people around the world, I followed her dramatic rescue with wonder and awe. She inspired many. From CNN’s website: Nearly a decade after she was rescued from a remote Antarctic research station after diagnosing herself…
“The words he wanted on his headstone are those he lived by each day: ‘parish priest’.”
By
deacon greg kandra
An alert reader sent this my way: a heartfelt appreciation in a Boston paper for a man who evidently touched many lives. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the Year for Priests than with this remembrance of one priest in particular, from columnist Peter Gelzinis: He was, for the record, a…
Jon Stewart, prophet
By
deacon greg kandra
If true, what does that make MCPF Stephen Colbert? Anyway: the scoop on Stewart, from David Waters in the Washington Post: In the July issue of Sojourners magazine, the Rev. Jim Wallis calls the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart a prophet. “The Hebrew prophets often use humor, satire, and truth-telling to get their message across, and…
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