Author Archives: Susan Kehoe

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About Susan Kehoe

I am the wife of a Catholic deacon living in Des Moines Iowa. My husband Larry was ordained in 2006. We have two children and five grandchildren.. Our daughter and her family live in Ireland, and our son and his family live in Franklin Massachusetts.

Are your work meetings like this?

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Susan Kehoe

H/T Deacon Greg Kandra

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Saint of the Day: Doctor of the Church St. Peter Damian

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Susan Kehoe
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We are all called to holiness

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Susan Kehoe

In order to become saints we have to forgive our enemies, pray for our enemies, love our enemies. Deacon Greg has a homily up for this weekend. Excerpt. How do we begin? Writer Emmett Fox, in his book “Sermon on … Continue reading →

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Creation reflects the Holy Trinity

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Susan Kehoe

The Church teaches that we can know something about God from Creation. Pope Benedict has often said that the Mystery of the Holy Trinity is reflected in nature: “The “name” of the Blessed Trinity is, in a certain sense, imprinted … Continue reading →

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Iowa Wrestler goes to the mat for his religious convictions

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Susan Kehoe

He refused to wrestle a girl.  I really don’t understand parents who would allow their daughter to wrestle a boy.  The false premise that gender doesn’t matter, that is, that male and female are interchangeable has taken hold in our … Continue reading →

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Saint of the Day: The Seven Founders of the Order of Servites

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Susan Kehoe
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Why Catholics can’t sing

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Susan Kehoe

Because, according to this post on the Catholic Phoenix, there are four Catholic musical diseases. Personally I think that there are far more. That is why I try to make it to the 7:30 mass; there is less music and … Continue reading →

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The 99 Lost Sheep:20 Somethings and the Catholic Church

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Susan Kehoe

The Church is losing young people. Outreach to the twenty something demographic has been, for the most part, a failure. How do we go about evangelizing young adults in a culture which brands Catholics as anti-women, puritanical, homophobic bigots? Well … Continue reading →

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Sex abuse scandal in Philadelphia

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Susan Kehoe

Apparently Cardinal Rigali read the Grand Jury Report on the sex abuse scandal in Philadelphia, because he is, finally, calling for an investigation. CNN reports: The Catholic Church in Philadelphia will investigate as many as 37 priests identified in a … Continue reading →

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Jewish Ritual Bath found in Baltimore may be oldest in US

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Susan Kehoe

From the Baltimore Son: “Archaeologists peeling back layers of history beneath the historic Lloyd Street Synagogue in East Baltimore have uncovered what is believed to be the oldest Jewish ritual bath complex in the United States. Hints of the presence … Continue reading →

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