Obama’s HHS is funding Catholic campaign for healthy marriages

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

An interesting tidbit, from CNS: A new Catholic-run Kansas public awareness campaign to promote healthy marriages and relationships also can help build stronger families, said the executive director of Catholic Charities in the Wichita Diocese. “Relationships impact the daily fabric of our society. The services we offer provide tangible tools for individuals that enhance the way they interact with everyone in their lives, not just their spouses or partners,” Cynthia Colbert said in announcing the campaign. Catholic Charities affiliates in... Read more

“We do not lose heart…”

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

“We do not lose heart, because our inner being is renewed each day even though our body is being destroyed at the same time. The present burden of our trial is light enough, and earns for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison. We do not fix our gaze on what is seen but on what is unseen. What is seen is transitory; what is unseen lasts forever.” — Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, from the Office... Read more

Man confesses killing to priest, who calls the cops

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Details: Jonathan Smith, on the run from Ohio, was so desperate to come clean that he grabbed the first priest he could find at a Midtown church and copped to bludgeoning his girlfriend 500 miles away, sources told The Post. “Someone is dead, and I feel really bad about it,” Smith, 48, told the startled clergyman at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street, according to a law-enforcement source. “He just grabbed a priest and said,... Read more

Aurora’s smallest survivor

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Meet Hugo Medley, and read his story: When Katie Medley gave birth to healthy baby boy at University of Colorado Hospital, her husband Caleb, wounded in Colorado’s theater shooting, lay in a medically induced coma one floor below her. Hugo Jackson Medley was born at 7:11 a.m. Tuesday, at 18.5 inches long and weighing 7 pounds, 4 ounces, friends said. Both mother and baby were doing great, hospital spokesman Dan Weaver said. Caleb Medley, an aspiring comic, has undergone three... Read more

Lift high the cross—and the pelican, too

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

My blogging colleague Joanne McPortland has this story up over at her place, and my palm instantly went to my forehead: STEUBENVILLE – City officials agreed Tuesday night to change the city logo after a Madison, Wis., organization threatened legal action. Law Director S. Gary Repella announced the decision following a 15-minute closed-door meeting with City Council members. “We will be approaching Mark Nelson of Nelson Fine Art and Gifts and asking him to redesign the city logo to remove... Read more

From Magnificat: a beautiful meditation by Jean Vanier on service

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

“The word ‘authority’ comes from the Latin ‘augere’ (to grow). All authority, whether it be civil, paternal, religious or community is intended to help people grow towards greater freedom, justice and truth. Often, however, it is used for honor, power, privilege and positive self-image of those who exercise it. By stooping down to wash the disciples’ feet, Jesus calls us all to exercise authority humbly, as a service … By washing his disciples’ feet, however, Jesus is calling them not... Read more

The unique ministry of deaf Catholics

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

They can hear the call like no one else — and also respond like no one else. Details from the B.C. Catholic in Vancouver: The Church needs deaf Catholics and their gifts for they can reach people for the Gospel that only they can reach. That’s the message Archbishop Terrence Prendergast gave delegates at the 11th National Conference of the Canadian Section of the International Catholic Deaf Association (ICDA) in Ottawa July 9-14. He gave his massage at a special... Read more

Being Christian: “Batman’s” Bale visits, prays at Aurora memorial

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

Poignant video, below: The story: ”Dark Knight Rises” star Christian Bale visited the memorial for victims of the Aurora theater shooting on Tuesday, as well as visited with some of the victims of the shootings at the Medical Center of Aurora South. Bale, and his wife Sibi Blazic arrived and walked around the memorial to honor the 12 people who died Friday morning at the Century 16 Movie Theaters. Bale also took part in an impromptu prayer circle. One woman... Read more

Trifecta: three brothers becoming priests

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

A vocations bonanza, from Huffington Post: When Luke Strand started college nine years ago, he wanted to earn a marketing degree, a job in the business world, then a house and children. Now he’s a priest and that’s not all. His brother, Vincent, is on his way to being ordained a Jesuit priest and their youngest brother, Jake, was ordained in the spring. The family calling is remarkable at a time when fewer men, especially in the U.S., are choosing... Read more

First look: Jeff Foxworthy’s new bible game show

Last updated on: September 30, 2016 at 5:06 pm By Deacon Greg Kandra

I wonder how Catholics would do on this?? Read about it here. Watch the preview below. Read more