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Catholic leaders barred from Western Wall for wearing crosses
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deacon greg kandra
Several years ago, my wife and I made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. When we got off the bus at the Western Wall to pray, a woman stopped us and told us we had to either take off our religious medals and crosses or put them inside our shirts. My wife, wearing a small…
Chilly Autumn
By
deacon greg kandra
This stirred up attention some months back, and some people thought the Royal involved would give up any claim to the throne for the woman he loved. Evidently, no, according to the Times of London: Peter Phillips, the Queen’s eldest grandson, will not have to give up his place in the succession to the throne…
Archbishop bars prominent priest as canon lawyer
By
deacon greg kandra
This news will likely be raising some eyebrows, since the man in question is one of the most prominent, outspoken and uncompromising voices working as an advocate for victims of clerical sex abuse: Saying Dominican Fr. Thomas Doyle had “failed to represent [clients] properly or effectively” in the church court in St. Louis, Archbishop Raymond…
The Rudy-Egan flap: “More like gossip than news”
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deacon greg kandra
Some New Yorkers, from the Rockville Center diocese, are now weighing in on the Rudy-Egan flap. Newsday has some reaction: Heading into the noon Mass at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre Tuesday, Anne-Marie Patton said she had no doubts Rudy Giuliani was out of line when he received Holy Communion at a papal Mass…
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