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By
Deacon Greg Kandra
“Liberals are critical of [authority], although they’ll use it when they’re in power. Conservatives would tend to be less critical, but equally dependent upon it. Consequently, when you get into the church, you get the conservatives unhappy because bishops aren’t using power the way they’re supposed to, the way they want them to. You get…
Rhapsody in tan: a Beach Boy will finish some Gershwin songs
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
From the “What Were They Thinking?” file…some curious musical news, courtesy the Los Angeles Times: In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of “Good Vibrations,” the other the Jazz Age creator of “Rhapsody in Blue,” former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been authorized by the estate…
Where do bishops come from?
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Everywhere. But there are a few places that seem to be especially successful at growing them. The top greenhouses are written up right here. Fascinating reading.
“The left’s hostility to Catholicism is on gaudy display”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
A man who may be testing the waters for a 2012 run for the White House has a few thoughts on what he considers to be serious challenges facing Christians in general — and Catholics in particular. Here’s former Senator Rick Santorum, in the Philadelphia Inquirer this morning: What do liberal proposals in Congress and…
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