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2018-07-01T21:43:34-04:00

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Death doesn’t win: Homily for July 1, 2018, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Last updated on: July 1, 2018 at 9:43 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

His name was Gerald Fischman. When I first met him, we were both students at the University of Maryland, where we worked on the student newpaper, the Diamondback. I wasn’t very close to him. In part, that’s because he was a hard person to get to know. He was a couple years older than me, and one of the most eccentric characters on campus—far from what you’d expect a college student to look like in the ‘70s. Gerald was short,... Read more

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2018-06-30T14:23:47-04:00

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Pope Francis surprises poor at special dinner

Last updated on: June 30, 2018 at 2:23 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

From Vatican Media: There was great celebration on Friday in the Vatican when some 280 poor people were invited to a dinner by new Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the official almsgiver of the Pope, who was made cardinal by Pope Francis at the Consistory the previous day, June 28th. Pope Francis surprised Cardinal Krajewski, his guests and volunteers with a visit and joined them at table at the Vatican employees’ canteen. “I came for the poor, not for you,” a smiling... Read more

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2018-06-30T12:01:44-04:00

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What would happen if Roe v. Wade gets overturned?

Last updated on: June 30, 2018 at 12:01 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

With the Supreme Court poised to get a new justice before the end of the year, it’s entirely possible SCOTUS will revisit the abortion issue and that someone, somewhere will seek to have Roe struck down. The Washington Post offers this helpful breakdown (check the link for a map), regarding the legal nuances involved: Regulating abortion would revert fully to state legislatures, many of which have become more conservative and have passed more than 400 laws that restrict access in... Read more

2018-06-30T11:23:20-04:00

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Hymn of the Week: ‘Holy God, We Praise Thy Name’

Last updated on: June 30, 2018 at 11:23 am By Deacon Greg Kandra

This most familiar of Catholic hymns serves as our recessional this weekend — and I doubt there are many in the pews who don’t know it. Its history is interesting — and it turns out its popularity in the United States owes much to immigration: The German Catholic priest Ignaz Franz (de) wrote the original German lyrics in 1771 as a paraphrase of the Te Deum, a Christian hymn in Latin from the 4th century. It became an inherent part of major Christian ceremonial occasions, mainly as a... Read more

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2018-06-29T18:15:38-04:00

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Ordination update: 11 new deacons for Kansas City

Last updated on: June 29, 2018 at 6:15 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Details: In an age-old rite, 11 men were ordained permanent deacons June 9 as the hundreds who filled the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception watched. The men were formally accepted as candidates to the diaconate in June 2015 by Vicar General Father Charles Rowe, acting on behalf of Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, then-apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Once accepted, Brian Buckner, Robert Falke, Joshua Fultz, James Koger, Michael Koile, Fred Lange, Paul... Read more

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2018-06-29T11:15:02-04:00

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Allentown priest, former head of diaconate office, removed from ministry over sex abuse charge

Last updated on: June 29, 2018 at 11:15 am By Deacon Greg Kandra

Details: The pastor of Sacred Heart parish in Bath encouraged a teen he was counseling via online video to take his clothes off and perform sex acts, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Philadelphia alleges. The suit charges that Monsignor Francis Nave persuaded the boy, who was 16 when the online counseling sessions began in 2011, to disrobe and commit sex acts. In a statement Wednesday, the Allentown Diocese said it was unaware of the allegations or the lawsuit before hearing... Read more

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2018-06-28T08:59:31-04:00

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Pope Francis on his critics: ‘I feel a pain and a pray for them’

Last updated on: June 28, 2018 at 8:59 am By Deacon Greg Kandra

The latest installment in Phillip Pullella’s wide-ranging interview with Pope Francis for Reuters: When Pope Francis wanted to appoint a woman as deputy head of the Vatican press office in 2016, he quickly ran into opposition from the Catholic Church’s male-dominated hierarchy. “I had to fight,” Francis said in a rare, two-hour interview with Reuters in his residence this month. Asked why the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, then three years into his papacy, could not put a... Read more

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2018-06-27T12:29:07-04:00

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UPDATE on papal commission studying women deacons

Last updated on: June 27, 2018 at 12:29 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

From NCR: The president of Pope Francis’ commission to study the history of women deacons in the Catholic Church says his group is not planning to advise the pontiff on whether to reinstitute the practice of ordaining women as deacons. “The Holy Father did not ask us to study if women could be deacons,” said Cardinal-designate Luis Ladaria. “The Holy Father asked us to search to say in a clear way the issues … that were present in the early... Read more

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2018-06-26T21:53:57-04:00

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Maxine and Martin: What’s love got to do with it? Everything.

Last updated on: June 26, 2018 at 9:53 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

This was Rep. Maxine Waters speaking at a rally Saturday, in a now-infamous diatribe against Donald Trump: The American people have put up with this president long enough. What more do we need to see? What more lies do we need to hear? If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them! She later explained on TV:... Read more

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2018-06-26T14:51:22-04:00

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To life: SCOTUS sides with pro-life pregnancy centers

Last updated on: June 26, 2018 at 2:51 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Big news, from CNA: The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a California law requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to post information on programs to obtain a free or low-cost abortion. The 5-4 ruling in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra sent the case back to a lower court to be reconsidered, in light of the Supreme Court’s finding that “We hold that petitioners are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the FACT Act violates... Read more

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