Archive for March, 2006
I am 100% Irish and I failed to mention St. Patrick’s Day on 3/17. Actually, I just never got around to making a post but I thought about St. Patrick many times.
St. Patrick was an interesting man and his life is a fascinating story. I won’t try to tell it here but if you get a [...]
Sometimes it is healthy to be made to feel uncomfortable. I enjoy a few parody websites that make light of some of the serious issues of the day and many times identify hypocrisy. Sometimes they are just plain funny and make no redeeming social statement. One of the sites I frequent is The Onion. The site is highly [...]
The other day I was leaving the chapel in our church after a visit to the Blessed Sacrament. Just outside the door there was a lectern with a book opened to accommodate prayer requests. I stopped for a couple minutes to read the entries and I felt as if I had gone backstage in the [...]
I read this article today in my local paper. How refreshing to hear about a priest evangelizing where the people are. Isn’t that what Jesus did? He went to the people and taught them where they were. He mixed with tax collectors and sinners because they needed him and wanted to hear what he had [...]
The Catholic Democrats in Congress are trying to do damage control after John Kerry caused so much commotion with his brand of Catholicism during the last presidential campaign. But the response by a member of a pro-life group has caused some commotion of its own.
Tom McClusky is a Catholic and is acting vice president for [...]
Ash Wednesday always has a peculiar feel to it. Though it is not a holy day of obligation my church will have 3 masses today. It is refreshing to see the acknowledgment of the beginning of such a sacred time but it makes me wonder what the motivation is. Do we want to recognize our [...]
