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“Don’t call me a saint”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
That was what Dorothy Day once said, and I alluded to her in my homily for Ascension Thursday. To mark the 75th anniversary of the Catholic Worker, Dorothy Day’s diaries have just been published. And a documentary on her life is now available. A clip is below.
Praying for profits from St. Pio
By
deacon greg kandra
As most have heard by now, Padre Pio’s body went on display yesterday, to mark the 40th anniversary of his death. And the New York Times takes a closer look at what that may mean for the people of his hometown, San Giovani Rotondo: The only visible parts of Padre Pio are his fingers, blackened…
A deacon’s miraculous healing credited to Cardinal Newman
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Could an American deacon play a role in the eventual canonization of Cardinal John Henry Newman? Yep. Looks that way. CNS has the details: The sainthood cause of a 19th-century English cardinal has taken a step forward after the Vatican’s medical commission ruled that there was no natural explanation for the healing of a U.S.…
Lubich on love
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
We should live in such a way that in our last hours we will not regret having loved too little. — Chiara Lubich, whose funeral mass was celebrated today in Rome, at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls. I don’t think she could possibly have had this regret in her own life.
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