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Karl Malden and the real-life “Waterfront Priest”
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deacon greg kandra
Leave it to James Martin to unearth this intriguing bit of Jesuit trivia, tied to the sad news that Karl Malden has gone to the great Actors Studio in the sky: News today that Karl Malden died at the age of 97 (I liked him best in “The Streets of San Francisco,” where he played…
Blame it on Disney
By
deacon greg kandra
That sound you hear is me, slapping the desk and laughing hysterically. Honestly. How can anyone take seriously something like this: Researchers at the University of Michigan have concluded that the love stories told in classic Disney and other G-rated children’s films – such as the Little Mermaid – are partially to blame for the…
The South, rising
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deacon greg kandra
Conventional wisdom holds that the South is where Mother Church is growing and thriving — and these figures out of Atlanta seem to bear that out: The fruit is considerable — in the heart of the Bible Belt, the North Georgia church has seen a more than fivefold increase in membership over the last two…
“Dottube”: one diocese’s innovative way of sharing the gospel message
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deacon greg kandra
In what may be a first, a New Jersey diocese has decided to carve out its own corner of cyberspace: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton recently launched a video-sharing Web site, www.dottube.org, to post video and audio produced by the diocese’s television and radio offices, and allow parishes, schools and church members to post…
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