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How I spent my summer vacation: seminarian edition
By
deacon greg kandra
If you ever wondered what seminarians do during their summer vacation — I know that has been on your mind, hasn’t it? — the Florida Catholic newspaper has this intriguing profile of how some men in St. Petersburg are spending these weeks: College students home for summer break typically hang with friends or work jobs.…
“Do not write off all women priests as ill prepared”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
I got an e-mail the other day from a reader in Minnesota who took issue with this blog post, quoting Curt Jester (Jeff Miller) who said (among other things): “How comes the ‘women’s ordination movement’ doesn’t have any seminaries? They just ordain women without any real preparation.” The reader wanted to set the record straight.…
Wisconsin welcomes its first married priest
By
deacon greg kandra
While the world watches and wonders what will be happening with the Anglicans — and if we might see a small stampede of new Catholic priests with families in tow — it’s worthwhile to pause and direct our attention toward Milwaukee. They’re about to make a little history there. This comes from the Milwaukee Journal…
“A sacrilegious parody of Holy Orders”
By
deacon greg kandra
Another group of women claims to now be validly ordained as priests — this time, in one of the most storied centers of American Catholicism, Boston. From the Globe: A group advocating for the ordination of women this afternoon held a ceremony in a packed Protestant church in Boston at which it declared three women…
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