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The Deacon's Bench
Greeley: “I’m Catholic. You got a problem with that?”
By
deacon greg kandra
With an eye toward today’s caucusing in Iowa, and an ear on the heightened religious rhetoric of the campaign, Andrew Greeley is offering a few thoughts — not all of them warm: I’m a Catholic. You got a problem with that? I’m a Christian too. You other guys got a problem with that? My crowd…
Catholic by design: one architect’s idea for a new high school
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
You rarely read about so much attention being paid to high school architecture, which makes this story out of South Carolina so surprising — and hopeful: Tom Loosbrock, a former architect who serves on the planning committee for a proposed Catholic high school to be built in Jasper County, wants to make sure the school’s…
Father January roots for the Yankees
By
deacon greg kandra
Those clever people in Britain have devised a new way to encourage vocations: priestly pin-ups. Or, more accurately, clerical calendars: Twelve Catholic priests have swapped their pulpits for favourite pastimes in a calendar designed to try to recruit young men to the priesthood. The priests, from the Diocese of Leeds, are pictured in an array…
“It was a year that strode boldly into the stall of human events and took a wide stance…”
By
deacon greg kandra
One of my annual pleasures, on the last Sunday of the year, is sitting down and laughing until my sides hurt from reading Dave Barry’s annual round-up of the year-in-review. If anyone missed it this year, it’s at the link. Here’s a choice nugget, from his preamble: It was a year that strode boldly into…
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