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Why I love having a blog
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Deacon Greg Kandra
It’s because I get to post stuff like this. I was delighted to learn that My Close Personal Friend Stephen Colbert had a chat last night on his show with another friend of mine, Fr. James Martin. The interview, about Mother Teresa, is below. Enjoy. (And, a tip of the biretta, by the way, to…
When that other person running the parish isn’t a priest
By
deacon greg kandra
Here’s something relatively new that I suspect we’ll be hearing about more and more: men and women who are not priests who are assigned to work as pastoral associates at a parish. The Tidings in Los Angeles more: “God is asking for the freedom to re-arrange the pieces of our lives,” Cardinal Roger Mahony told…
Jane Wyman: buried in a habit
By
deacon greg kandra
News reports of Jane Wyman’s funeral have mentioned her devout Cathoicism — and a detail that may surprise some people: she was buried in a habit. This, from a local TV station: Adopted son Michael Reagan attended the service with his wife and their daughter, Ashley, and son, Cameron, who was a pallbearer. When he…
Kathy Mattea: “When I am the most vulnerable, I am the most teachable”
By
deacon greg kandra
This piece ran nearly a month ago on a little blog run by Tony Rossi, The Intersection, but it’s too good to pass up. It’s a compelling and actually inspiring interview with singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea, who talks about her Catholic upbringing and her own faith journey through a lot of peaks and, lately, some very…
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