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WYD, Baptist edition
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
No big rallies. No papal homilies. No singing nuns. Just some really cool semiautomatic weapons. Or so it seems, judging from this item out of Oklahoma: An Oklahoma baptist church has insisted it will proceed with its controversial plan to give away an AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle during a youth conference – a move described…
WYD: secular or sacred?
By
deacon greg kandra
Not every Catholic in Australia is thrilled about World Youth Day — and one leading critic is taking the time to make sure the press knows about his displeasure: A group of Catholic priests opposed to church modernisation has condemned World Youth Day as an appalling display of secularism with little holy or Catholic content.…
Tony Snow, and the blessings of cancer
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Now seems a good time to take a second look at something Tony Snow wrote last year, for Christianity Today. It speaks in many ways, about many things. But the title says it all: “Cancer’s Unexpected Blessings”: Blessings arrive in unexpected packages—in my case, cancer. Those of us with potentially fatal diseases—and there are millions…
WYD? EWTN.
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Anyone curious to catch up on the World Youth Day festivities should wander over to EWTN, which seems to have the definitive site for this event, complete with blogs, video, news items, pictures — you name it. Meantime, there’s this great video, from the closing of the WYD in 2005, featuring the theme song for…
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