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2018-11-29T11:22:06-05:00

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‘Nothing newsworthy to report’: Diocese defends employing priest who threatened rape, says he has recovered

Last updated on: November 29, 2018 at 11:22 am By Deacon Greg Kandra

The lead paragraph from the AP report on a priest in Sioux City: A Roman Catholic diocese on Wednesday defended its decision to continue employing a priest who told police he was trying to rape a woman when he was arrested naked in an Iowa mall in 2013. You’ll want to read the whole story, which describes how this priest met with a woman at a bakery, announced he was going to masturbate, took of his pants, and chased the woman... Read more

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2018-11-29T07:01:39-05:00

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‘We are richly blessed’: Atlanta’s Archbishop Gregory on deacons

Last updated on: November 29, 2018 at 7:01 am By Deacon Greg Kandra

There are still places in the United States where deacons are minimized, marginalized, dismissed or, even, ignored. So to find an archdiocese not only honoring the diaconate on the 50th anniversary of its restoration but even celebrating it is something exceptional and gratifying. It is a sign of hope. A write up from the Georgia Bulletin: In a September letter to pastors in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, urged parishes to celebrate the anniversary of the restoration... Read more

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2018-11-28T18:21:27-05:00

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Living Caravaggio paintings? Prepare to have your mind blown.

Last updated on: November 28, 2018 at 6:21 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Seriously: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the father of Baroque painting, shocked the upper class aesthetes of his day by drafting prostitutes and proletariats as models for his primarily Biblical subjects. Ten years ago, under the direction of founder Ludovica Rambelli, eight members of the Italian company, Malatheatre, discovered first hand the insanely rigorous poses Caravaggio demanded of his models, creating 23 tableaux vivants inspired by the master’s oeuvre. The company sought less to reproduce the paintings than the scene Caravaggio would have gazed on from behind... Read more

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2018-11-28T12:25:40-05:00

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Report: second miracle confirmed for Blessed John Henry Newman

Last updated on: November 28, 2018 at 12:25 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Sainthood could be coming soon, if reports are accurate: Blessed John Henry Newman could be canonised as early as next year after a second miracle was approved, the Catholic Herald has learned. Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth said in an email newsletter last week that it “looks now as if Newman might be canonised, all being well, later next year.” Fr Ignatius Harrison, the Postulator of the Cause, confirmed to the Catholic Herald that there were now just “two more hoops” for the... Read more

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2018-11-29T06:14:49-05:00

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What really happened in Memphis? — UPDATED

Last updated on: November 29, 2018 at 6:14 am By Deacon Greg Kandra

An excellent report by Crux’s Christopher White lays out the facts behind the sudden and headline-grabbing departure of Bishop Martin Holley. In the first of a three-part series, he writes: In a sense, this story is bigger than Holley and Memphis. It’s about how quickly an apparently well-functioning diocese can be thrown into turmoil when a new bishop, for whatever reason, struggles to bring his priests and people in line with his vision – and thus, perhaps, an object lesson... Read more

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2018-11-28T09:09:13-05:00

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MUST-SEE VIDEO: When a little boy interrupts the pope’s General Audience

Last updated on: November 28, 2018 at 9:09 am By Deacon Greg Kandra

This video from Rome Reports is priceless: The explanation: This little boy had no concerns about passing security and walking up the steps of Paul VI Audience Hall to check whether the Swiss guard was real or a statue. His mother tried to come and take him away but the little boy did not want to. “He’s Argentinian, undisciplined,” the pope joked. The boy then called his sister and they began to run around the stage. The monsignor who was... Read more

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2018-11-28T06:42:19-05:00

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Incredible: Little Sisters of the Poor robbed while shopping at Costco

Last updated on: November 28, 2018 at 6:42 am By Deacon Greg Kandra

It happened outside Baltimore. From The Catholic Review: Apparent Good Samaritans turned out to be nothing of the sort after allegedly stealing Christmas presents from two Little Sisters of the Poor outside the Costco in Columbia Nov. 26. Mother Superior Joseph Caroline Beutler and Sister Bernadette Mary Wilson, who care for the elderly poor at St. Martin’s Home for the Aged in Catonsville, were taking advantage of holiday sales to purchase $510 worth of items, including blankets and socks they... Read more

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2018-11-27T14:09:24-05:00

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#MeToo? Theologians draft the ‘Women’s Bible’

Last updated on: November 27, 2018 at 2:09 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

From AFP — and note the surprising reference to Martha and deacons: Tired of seeing their holy texts used to justify the subjugation of women, a group of feminist theologians from across the Protestant-Catholic divide have joined forces to draft “A Women’s Bible”. As the #MeToo movement continues to expose sexual abuse across cultures and industries, some scholars of Christianity are clamouring for a reckoning with biblical interpretations they say have entrenched negative images of women. The women we know... Read more

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Deacons

2018-11-27T07:03:58-05:00

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Texas diocese argues: ‘Church property should not be used for building a border wall’

Last updated on: November 27, 2018 at 7:03 am By Deacon Greg Kandra

From Catholic News Agency: The Diocese of Brownsville, Texas is pushing back against a government effort to use Church property to aid in the construction of the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. David Garza, a lawyer for the diocese in South Texas, told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times that “it goes against the First Amendment, freedom of religion.” The federal government has informed the dioceses that it plans to survey an estimated 67 acres of property where La Lomita Mission,... Read more

2018-11-26T22:34:27-05:00

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His family thought this Jewish boy might become a rabbi; instead, he became a Catholic deacon

Last updated on: November 26, 2018 at 10:34 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

A great journey, via Elizabeth Fisher in Catholic Philly: Richard Malamut was raised in the Jewish tradition, worshiped with his family at the Oxford Circle Jewish Community Center in Northeast Philadelphia, attended Hebrew school and went through the Bar Mitzvah ceremony. By the age of 13, his devotion led his family and friends to believe that he was destined to be a rabbi. Neither they nor he could envision that his future lay in the diaconate of the Roman Catholic Church.... Read more

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