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Dwindling Catholic school enrollment: “A slow-moving disaster”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
A new report paints the clearest picture yet of what is happening in Catholic education — and what isn’t. USA Today has a snapshot: For years, parents at St. Joseph School, a tiny Catholic school in Petersburg, Va., have fretted over just about everything: The 133-year-old school is losing students and faces a debt of…
“We live it every day”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
In its ongoing run-up to the pope’s visit, the Washington Post is taking a look at how some Catholics live, and has discovered — surprise surprise — that some of them really are Catholic: During an era when two-thirds of young Catholics say they can be good Catholics without going to Mass and many believe…
Welcome home
By
deacon greg kandra
How’s this for 21st century evangelization: an enterprising person has created a website geared specifically to wayward Catholics. And it’s having a phenomenal impact. Check out the story, from Catholic News Agency: In less than three weeks, 3,000 Catholics returned to the Church in the Diocese of Phoenix due to the effort of a new…
Taking Christ out of Christianity
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
There aren’t many things these days that leave me utterly speechless. But this item did: That triumphal barnburner of an Easter hymn, “Jesus Christ Has Risen Today – Hallelujah,” this morning will rock the walls of Toronto’s West Hill United Church as it will in most Christian churches across the country. But at West Hill…
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