Happy Birthday, Deacon Greg

June 8, 2011 By 7 Comments

Today, we celebrate the birth of pundit, deacon and Gemini, Greg Kandra. Greg’s one of my personal heroes, for three reasons: 1) he is sincerely and completely committed to serving God; 2) he’s worked as a real, live media guy; and 3) his blog, the Deacon’s Bench, gets hit like a ten-dollar hooker. For him, [...]

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Girlgeek’s Kids Avenge Mom’s Honor

June 8, 2011 By 8 Comments

Change your maps: Connecticut is the Khyber Pass; America’s suburbs are Pakistan’s tribal areas. The children of America’s hipster moms are paying off their parents’ blood debts.* As an anonymous woman writes to Slate’s Emily Yoffe: I enrolled my two boys into an exclusive private school in our new hometown. At a school event I [...]

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Man Declines to Serve as Deacon Under Finn

June 7, 2011 By 4 Comments

How to remonstrate with a bishop? The Church is not a democracy, nor even a constitutional republic. Catholics dissatisfied with Church leadership can vote with their feet — and about one in three do — but with their voices gone, the dialogue, such as it is, coems to resemble an echo-chamber. A few propose alternative [...]

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