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The Deacon's Bench
The Bush Brothers: Jeb says W won’t convert
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deacon greg kandra
After gobbling up tons of bandwidth over the Kennedys, let’s now turn to the other side of the aisle, and another political dynasty, okay? Rumblings about George W. Bush converting to Catholicism have been heard since before he left office. And the other day, his brother had something to say about that: At Communion and…
Looking at the “socially minded ethnic Catholic tradition” of the Democrats
By
deacon greg kandra
Over at U.S. News & World Report, Dan Gilgoff (with a big nod to David Gibson) takes note of an interesting demographic point: Ted Kennedy’s death is an end to several different eras, but Politics Daily’s David Gibson warns against seeing it as the end of an era for the socially minded ethnic Catholic tradition…
“Molded into the likeness of Christ”
By
deacon greg kandra
Those words, from the Rite for Ordination for the Order of Priests, seem to sum it all up for the picture below. H/T to The Crescat via New Advent for bringing this to my attention. As noted: 4 June 1962. Navy chaplain Luis Padillo was giving last rites to dying soldiers as sniper fire surrounded…
One final thought on Kennedy’s funeral
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deacon greg kandra
I posted some of the remarks below in the comment box. I’m putting them here for further thought, and prayer. And I place this here, mindful of the fact that several readers have written me personally, deeply distressed at the tone that has overtaken the blog in recent days. I know: people are anguished about…
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