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“Most priests live lives of heroic integrity”
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Deacon Greg Kandra
Here’s an intriguing piece out of Long Island, where a man is collecting interviews in an effort to repair the damage done to the reputation of priests: he sex-abuse scandal that broke in 2002 roiled the Roman Catholic Church and in the eyes of many tarnished the image of priests. But for Farmingdale resident Ed…
Louisville at 200: “It’s like our own Yankee Stadium event”
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deacon greg kandra
The good people of Louisville were celebrating yesterday at Slugger Field, marking the 200th anniversary of the Archdiocese (founded, originally, in Bardstown, just a stone’s throw from Thomas Merton’s old home, the Abbey of Gethsemane) The Courier-Journal has the story, and if you go to their link, video, too: The 4,000 local Catholics who celebrated…
Baltimore’s Archbishop holds meeting over Legion of Christ controversy
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Over the weekend, the Archbishop of Baltimore had a meeting to discuss his ongoing concerns over the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi. A priest who was there has blogged about it: On Saturday, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien met with a group of members of Regnum Christi after the priesthood ordination in Baltimore. Recognizing that they…
Bringing ’em back
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
One of the topics tackled by the USCCB (when the bishops weren’t riding the teacups at Disney World) was how to woo back lapsed Catholics. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch talked to a few experts about that: In the St. Louis archdiocese, church leaders are reaching out to lapsed Catholics. St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke established…
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