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A Catholic soldier: “Sometimes killing is necessary. That doesn’t make it right.”
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deacon greg kandra
The Washington Post’s Elizabeth Tenety has posted a terrific interview this weekend with a Catholic veteran of Iraq who is now a student at Georgetown. As Tenety describes him: “William James Quinn was 24 and a veteran of the Iraq war when he began his freshman year of college. While in Iraq, he worked as…
The bullet in the breviary
By
deacon greg kandra
You can never tell where a vocation will come from, and in Florida Catholic this week there’s a stirring story of a young boy whose life was shaped by one memory of an uncle who was a military chaplain during World War II: If anything will make an impression on a young lad growing up…
Just in time for Thanksgiving, a remembrance of Norman Rockwell
By
deacon greg kandra
The Washington Post has a new roving On Faith columnist, Christy McKerney, who roved her way up to Stockbridge, Massachusetts and visited the Norman Rockwell Museum. There, she pondered some of the amazing pictures, and chatted with a woman who gives guided tours of Rockwell’s studio — and who posed for the great artist many…
Worried about the future? Read this. You’ll feel better.
By
deacon greg kandra
From Louisville comes this story of a 22-year-old who would put most of us twice his age to shame. It’s a little-reported nugget of news from the USCCB meeting in Baltimore — and it’s well worth your time: David Golemboski’s resume reads like that of someone with a few more decades behind him, but it’s…
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