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The Deacon's Bench
Tony Blair = St. Paul?
By
deacon greg kandra
I suspect we’ll be hearing more and more about Tony Blair’s conversion, as more experts and friends and enemies weigh in. Today’s nugget: from Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent from the London Times, who spoke with one of the priests who shepherded Blair on the road to Rome: The Roman Catholic priest who was instrumental in…
O, star of wonder…
By
deacon greg kandra
People have been wondering about that star, the one that guided the magi, for 20 centuries, and now an astronomer at Notre Dame is giving it a shot: His quest: discovering just what “the star in the East” was that led wise men to travel to Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. As a theoretical astrophysicist, Grant…
Man protests commercialism by crucifying Santa
By
deacon greg kandra
Whenever I think I’ve seen everything, someone comes along to prove me wrong. Such is the case with this unbelievable display in Washington State: If you’ve stood in one line too many at the mall as you watched your bank account dwindle and your credit debt rise this holiday season, you might find a kindred…
It started at Downing Street…
By
deacon greg kandra
More details are seeping out about Tony Blair’s conversion. This piece from the Guardian says that he actually began instruction before leaving his job as prime minister: Tony Blair began formal instructions to convert officially to Roman Catholicism four months before leaving office, it emerged last night, after it was confirmed that the former Prime…
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