Random Musings by Kraft
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“the power and the glory” review
The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene, John Updike The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene, is a story of an old “whiskey priest” trying to escape capture in old southern Mexico. The State had outlawed God. Churches were closed and destroyed. Priests either had to marry, by law, or…
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two new projects
Two new projects down the workflow for your consideration. First, a new website called Catholic Thinker. This weblog, written mainly by Mark Lavernge, hopes to have a few regular contributors discussing modern events in light of Catholic thought. As the disclaimer on the site reads, “The authors on the website do not claim to speak…
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a twin in austin?
On page 14 in the March issue of Catholic Spirit, the newspaper for the Diocese of Austin, there is a photospread of various vocation office events held over the past couple of months. Despite rumors to the contrary, that is not a picture of me. I don’t own that shirt and my hairline isn’t as…
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church robberies in the austin area
It’s sad that alerts like this exists. This came from the Chancellor of the Diocese of Austin. This is to alert you to a series of robberies that has been occurring in some parishes around the diocese. There have been three instances in the Austin area in which a white male in his 30’s driving…
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another 1 on the tower
Everyone close to campus remembers the crazy mob of people who visited The University of Texas following our football National Championship win at the Rose Bowl. The Tower was lit with a 1 in the “Athletic Championship” configuation. Everyone acted like they had never seen it. Without checking on the minor sports, baseball has won…
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a little fun with the site
Early Sunday morning, I realized I had some incorrect settings for my site’s DNS. In trying to fix it, I accidently knocked off the site for most of today. There are various DNS servers across the Internet that help your computer know that brandonkraft.com actually points to a server with a certain IP address. Since…