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The Deacon's Bench
It depends on what you mean when you say “church”
By
deacon greg kandra
Cardinal Walter Kasper is already out in the fields, with a hammer and nails, mending some fences. He’s trying to patch things up with our Protestant neighbors: “What unites us is bigger than what divides us,” said Cardinal Walter Kasper, who is responsible for the church’s relations with other denominations. The Vatican’s doctrinal watchdog yesterday…
Ouch
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Well, some Protestants are not taking the document on Catholic primacy very well. Consider this snippet: The Rev. Setri Nyomi, general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, published an open letter July 10 addressed to Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. “An exclusivist claim that identifies the…
Whispers from the Piazza
By
deacon greg kandra
It’s not often that a baseball star opens up and talks candidly, even movingly, about his Catholic faith. But that’s what Oakland A’s star Mike Piazza has done with this interview at Beliefnet. The All Star says, among other things: My personal opinion is to keep (prayer)broader, to get up in the morning and pray…
A little bite of Colbert with your morning coffee
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Some things are just too good not to share. Like this clip from the vault of the Colbert Report, posted over at The Word: Catholic Colbert. A big tip of the zuchetto to Diane, who keeps the plates spinning at The Word (as well as over at Bringing Home The Word) for alerting me to…
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