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What’s a dad to do?
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Check out this wonderful short film from The Responsbility Project. How far would you go for your kids? Oh: it turns out the blog at this site is written by a former colleague of mine, Kathy McManus. Kudos, “Mackers”!
Advice to Obama: “Get on the phone if the pope calls”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Over at the National Catholic Reporter, John Allen has penned an open letter to President-elect Obama, offering some unsolicited advice about how to deal with the Vatican, and he concludes with this telling anecdote about the last Democratic president: In his memoirs, former Vatican Ambassador Raymond Flynn tells a depressing story from 1994 illustrating what…
“Dear Senator Biden…”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
A bishop from Florida, John Riccard, has drawn a line in the sand — or maybe, at the altar rail — and has sent a letter to the vice president-elect regarding communion and conscience: I learned recently of your visit to the diocese during the political campaign and that you attended the celebration of Sunday…
“Because of God, I have the strength never to give up”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
This sounds like exactly the sort of television we need: a program about perseverance, and hope, and more than a little bit of faith. It’s about a 30-something Sunday school teacher in Georgia named Ruby Gettinger and her struggle with obesity. Her journey is told in “Ruby,” a nine-episode reality series debuting on the Style…
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