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The Deacon's Bench
Finally, an idea for this Sunday’s homily…
By
deacon greg kandra
Here’s something you don’t hear priests preaching about very much. From the Dallas Morning News: God may have rested on the seventh day, but the Rev. Ed Young wants married couples to have sex all week long. Once a day. Beginning this Sunday. The call to action will headline Mr. Young’s Sunday sermon at Grapevine-based…
Barack rings up Benedict
By
deacon greg kandra
The man who will be president had his first phone conversation with the man who is pope. And Vice President-elect Biden’s bishop has a few things to say, too, about the most famous Catholic in his diocese. From The Times of London: It has emerged that US President-elect Barack Obama held his first telephone conversation…
The end of “objectivity”?
By
deacon greg kandra
Here’s an interesting take on the media — with a side glance at the religion beat — that focuses on Michael Paulson of the Boston Globe. This comes from the current issue of Editor & Publisher: When Michael Paulson began covering religion for The Boston Globe eight years ago, the paper had no blogs or…
“Any one of us would consider it a privilege to die tomorrow to bring about an end to abortion”
By
deacon greg kandra
The bishops meeting in Baltimore is about to produce its most important and timely document, probably later today. From the Washington Post: The nation’s Catholic bishops Tuesday approved a statement declaring that if the Democratic-controlled Congress and the incoming Obama administration enact proposed abortion rights legislation, they would see it as an attack on the…
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