Deacon Greg Kandra

Author

Deacon Greg Kandra is an author, speaker, blogger and award-winning journalist who may be may be best known as the creator of the popular blog “The Deacon’s Bench.” He served for 11 years as a senior writer and editor for Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA), a pontifical agency founded by Pope Pius XI in 1926. Before joining CNEWA, Deacon Greg spent nearly three decades in broadcast journalism, most of that time at CBS News, where he was honored with every major award in broadcasting, including two Peabody Awards, three Emmy Awards and four awards from the Writers Guild of America. His writing has appeared in “U.S. Catholic, America, Give Us This Day and Our Sunday Visitor”, and he contributes a regular column on Scripture for OSV News, “The Word in Season.”