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The Deacon's Bench
“Full House, Full Hands, Full Hearts”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Wow. That was my reaction when I scanned one of the comments about my homily from this Sunday and discovered that it was from a woman I’d mentioned, Erin Henderson. You just never know who will visit The Bench. Turns out, she has her own blog about her remarkable family. Take a look at “Full…
“My job is to make sure that people into heaven. What could be better?”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Here’s a charming and uplifting piece, courtesty Roman Catholic Vocations, about a parish priest beginning his new assignment in Akron, Ohio: Catherine Paparella nudged her college buddy more than 20 years ago during a Mass and told him he had the perfect personality to be a priest. ”We were listening to a seminarian who was…
What Sarah Palin really has to worry about
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
This writer knows whereof she speaks: “Palin’s friends should be less immediately worried about what the Obama campaign will do to her than what the McCain campaign will do. This is a woman who’s tough enough to work her way up and through, and to say yes to a historic opportunity, but she will know…
“Fr. What-A-Waste” takes on the atheists
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Regular readers will recall that is Katie Couric’s nickname for this dashing TV priest and moral theologian, Fr. Thomas Williams, who works as a Vatican consultant for CBS News. The good father has a new book out, “Greater Than You Think,” an extended argument against atheism. And Elizabeth Scalia has a review of it over…
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