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Out of Africa: “Our seminary is full”
By
deacon greg kandra
It’s no secret the Church in Africa is cranking out vocations like crazy. The item below, from the Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), just underscores the point. The rector of Uganda’s seminary also offers some interesting contrasts between the Church in Africa, and the one in Europe: Father Aquirinus Francis Kibira,…
On this rock: from the Beatles to Benedict and beyond
By
deacon greg kandra
I can think of a few people who might disagree, but writer Mark Judge, in the Washington Post, makes a compelling argument that rock and roll is a distinctly Catholic form of art: You don’t need to work at MTV to realize that love – and it’s loss – is the great theme of popular…
“Ooooh! What color! That looks like something I would wear!”
By
deacon greg kandra
That was what my wife said when I showed her the picture below. Our snazzy pontiff continues to turn heads.
St. Gwen? An Ohio man works for his late wife’s canonization
By
deacon greg kandra
A common complaint I hear from some lay Catholics is that most of the saints are priests, nuns or religious. What about ordinary people raising families and having jobs? Can’t they be saints, too? Well, look no further than this unusual story out of Pittsburgh, where a widower is now working to have his late…
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