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The Deacon's Bench
Solace in stone
By
deacon greg kandra
How do you commemorate a nightmare? The Los Angeles Times this week has this poignant and, I think, important piece on how various dioceses around the country are honoring and remembering the victims of clerical sex abuse: Oakland’s new Cathedral of Christ the Light stretches skyward, sheathed in gleaming glass that reveals a delicate skeleton…
RIP: minister who urged adding “under God” to pledge
By
deacon greg kandra
A man most Americans have never heard of — but who had a profound impact on our counry’s culture — has died. From the Washington Post: The Rev. George M. Docherty, the former pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church who delivered an influential sermon that led to the insertion of the phrase “under…
What the hell is wrong with people?
By
deacon greg kandra
You gotta wonder.
The threat of FOCA
By
deacon greg kandra
It’s more than just a threat to the unborn, as Melinda Henneberger suggests in this piece from Slate: Though it’s often referred to as a mere codification of Roe, FOCA, as currently drafted, actually goes well beyond that: According to the Senate sponsor of the bill, Barbara Boxer, in a statement on her Web site,…
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