{"id":7840,"date":"2020-01-16T10:29:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmarylancaster.org\/2018\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2020-01-27T08:29:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:29:40","slug":"about-deacon-kandra-our-parish-mission-presenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmarylancaster.org\/2018\/about-deacon-kandra-our-parish-mission-presenter\/","title":{"rendered":"About Deacon Kandra &#8211; Our Parish Mission Presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7841 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stmarylancaster.org\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Kandra2.jpg?resize=315%2C473&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"473\" \/>Our Parish Mission &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/stmarylancaster.org\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SM-20-Mission-Poster-1-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VIEW DETAILS<\/a><br \/>\nMarch 16, 17, and 18th at 7 PM<\/p>\n<p>Deacon Greg is the creator of the blog \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thedeaconsbench.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Deacon\u2019s Bench<\/a>\u201d which has garnered some 20 million readers from around the world. He spent nearly three decades in broadcast journalism, most of that time at CBS News, where he was a writer and producer for several programs. In 2002, he co-wrote the acclaimed CBS documentary \u201c9\/11,\u201d hosted by Robert DeNiro, which told the story of firefighters on September 11 and featured the last images of Father Mychal Judge, moments before he became the first official fatality of the attacks. In print, Deacon Greg\u2019s radio essays were featured in Dan Rather\u2019s best-selling book \u201cDeadlines and Datelines.\u201d His essays have been published in America, U.S. Catholic Digest, and the Brooklyn Tablet. Deacon Greg has received every major award in broadcasting \u2013 including two Emmys, two Peabody Awards and four awards from the Writer\u2019s Guild of America.\u00a0 His spiritual writing and essays have been honored multiple times with awards by the Catholic Press Association. He\u2019s one of 76 New Yorkers\u2014including Dorothy Day and Fulton Sheen\u2014profiled in the 2014 book \u201cNew York Catholics.\u201d A Maryland native, Deacon Greg graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English in 1982. He was ordained a deacon for the Diocese of Brooklyn in 2007. He and his wife live in Forest Hills, New York, where he serves at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs parish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Parish Mission &#8212; VIEW DETAILS March 16, 17, and 18th at 7 PM Deacon Greg is the creator of the blog \u201cThe Deacon\u2019s Bench\u201d which has garnered some 20 million readers from around the world. 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