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Building a Catholic university by degrees
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deacon greg kandra
While a lot of attention has been focused on Ave Maria, the shiny new Catholic-centric town in Florida, less attention has been focused on the university sprouting up around it. This, too, is the brainchild of zillionaire and pizza magnate Thomas Monaghan. Now a newspaper in Kansas gives us a peek: Rising 10 stories from…
Does Hollywood have a prayer? Yes. Hundreds, in fact…
By
deacon greg kandra
Fed up with all the schlock coming out of Hollywood? Hit your knees. That, at least, seems to be the message of a new ministry that’s cropped up in California, started by a woman who has produced documentaries for NBC: While most of us shake our heads, snicker or secretly gloat over celebrity scandal and…
“I believe my faith is my greatest gift”
By
deacon greg kandra
In my parish, we’ve just begun a novena to St. John Vianney, the patron of parish priests. It is one way to offer a prayer for vocations, and to raise awareness. In North Carolina, the local paper has a great vocation story — and it’s also a conversion story, about a young man named Michael…
Homily for July 29, 2007: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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deacon greg kandra
When I was four or five years old, my mother took me Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center, in Wheaton, Maryland, to see Santa Claus. Any four-year old will tell you: this is a very big deal. And it was even more so for me, because I wanted a new two-wheel bike, with monkey bars and a…
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