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Knockin’ on heaven’s door: a summer of celebrity deaths
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deacon greg kandra
Hot on the heels of learning of the death of Mary Travers, someone posted a comment, noting that Henry Gibson had also died today. Does it seem like a lot of well-known people are shuffling off this mortal coil? The New York Times takes a look: One after the other, they were dying: Michael Jackson,…
Mary Travers, 1936-2009
By
deacon greg kandra
Somewhere in a battered cardboard box in the back of my closet there is a 45 rpm recording of this classic (and controversial) song that I played over and over and over on a record player in my corner room on Morgal Street when I was, I guess, about five. It seems so long ago.…
Quote of the day
By
deacon greg kandra
“So, what are some of the basics of health care reform? Health care reform especially needs to protect those at the beginning of life and at its end — the most vulnerable and the voiceless. It is essential that reform include long-standing and widely supported federal restrictions on abortion funding and mandates and uphold existing…
Boom!
By
deacon greg kandra
Here’s a nifty new website devoted to vocations called — joyfully — Vocation Boom! And one of their videos is below. Check it out, along with others at the site. H/T Happy Catholic.
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