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deacon greg kandra
“We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature.” — Retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland,writing in his new book, “A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church” UPDATE: The Anchoress has posted her own sage thoughts on Weakland, to wit: Weakland seems a troubled man and a weak…
God bless “America”
By
deacon greg kandra
Doc Mac reminds us that today is the Big Day for a venerable and enduring Catholic institution: Today marks the hundredth anniversary of America magazine. The founder was father John J. Wynne, the Jesuit who conceived the idea of the Catholic Encyclopedia. Wynne had edited the Jesuits’ Messenger of the Sacred Heart since the 1890’s,…
“Seven Stanzas for Easter” by John Updike
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deacon greg kandra
Make no mistake: if He rose at allit was as His body;if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the moleculesreknit, the amino acids rekindle,the Church will fall. It was not as the flowers,each soft Spring recurrent;it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddledeyes of the eleven apostles;it was as His flesh: ours.…
Sorry, but …
By
deacon greg kandra
… the comments in the posts about Obama and Notre Dame, and Glendon and Notre Dame, have started to go off the deep end. They’ve been shut down before things get out of hand.
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