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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Homily: Vigil, Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

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Note: I've already posted a homily for this solemnity (back in June of 2011), and this is pretty much the same homily, with only a few...
Monday, June 30, 2014

A Comment on Comments

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If you submit a comment to one of my posts, I'm happy to include it, but I have a few basic rules: 1. Anonymous comments will not be a...

Monument to Gavrilo Princip?

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Among the people mentioned in my most recent post was Gavrilo Princip, the Bosnian Serb assassin who murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand of A...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Endings and Beginnings, Life and Death

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Mom...R.N. Today, June 28, is my mother's birthday. Martha Catherine McCarthy,  née Cavanaugh , w as born 105 years ago in Fairfield...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Western Trip Part 5: Everything Grand

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I've stepped away from writing about our recent road trip to the West Coast simply because this past week has been so very busy. I'v...

G. K. Chesterton, RIP

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The great -- and I don't apply that word to people too often -- G. K. Chesterton died 78 years ago on this date in 1936. A convert to Ca...
Friday, June 13, 2014

JFK Funeral, a Postscript

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I received an email today from a friend who had read yesterday's post. He asked if I could pass along the words of one of the hymns our ...
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Deacon Dana
The Villages, Florida, United States
I'm a permanent deacon of the Roman Catholic Church, incardinated in the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, but now living and ministering in the Diocese of Orlando, Florida. I'm also a retired naval aviator, educator, and business consultant. Born in Bridgeport, CT, I was brought up in Larchmont, NY, and attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, NY, graduating in 1962. I spent a year at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, but then managed to get an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, from which I graduated in 1967. The Navy taught me to fly and sent me to graduate school. Afterwards I taught computer science at Annapolis for several years. I did lots of other strange things in the years that followed. Politically -- perhaps more accurately, philosophically -- I'm a Russell Kirk conservative in most things. More importantly, though, I am husband of the beautiful Diane, the father of four, and grandfather of nine.
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