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The Deacon's Bench
A Catholic, a Methodist and a Lutheran walk into a bar …
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
… and the result is doctrine! Two of the three faiths agreed on the doctrine of justification 10 years ago — the Methodists chimed in a few years later — and they’re planning to mark the anniversary with a prayer service tomorrow night. From CNA: Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist church leaders will mark the tenth…
My pal, St. Jerome
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Today marks the feast of St. Jerome. I have some special affection for this old saint– and an unusual connection to him. In the 1930s, my father kissed his Slovak mother on the cheek and walked out the door of their ramshackle house near the coal mines of Pennsylvania and joined the Christian Brothers, where…
Funniest license plate. Ever.
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
A longtime reader spotted this on a car belonging to someone who works for the Archdiocese of Washington.
A good mad man is hard to find
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Could Flannery O’Connor have invented Don Draper? An astute critic in America magazine suggests the answer is “Yes.” Rev. Terrance W. Klein draws some intriguing parallels between O’Connor’s Gothic South and the 1960’s-era boardrooms of “Mad Men’s” Madison Ave.: “Mad Men” employs the same creative device Flannery O’Connor used. It radically resets a character or…
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