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January 2nd, 2003
The Oft Forgot Epiphany Celebration, Wise Men and All
Ever had a revelation? Ever, in the middle of everything ordinary, touched the depths of what is mystery ?
Despite the post-New Year hangovers, this is just the time for revelations.
According to ancient tradition, the 6th ...
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January 2nd, 2003
The Oft Forgot Epiphany Celebration, Wise Men and All
Ever had a revelation? Ever, in the middle of everything ordinary, touched the depths of what is mystery ?
Despite the post-New Year hangovers, this is just the time for revelations.
According to ancient tradition, the 6th ...
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December 13th, 2002
This morning in Rome it was announced that the pope had accepted the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, the Archbishop of Boston. This brings to an end one part of the yearlong priest sex scandal ...
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October 25th, 2002
All I Needed to Know About the Eucharist I Learned at Dinner
Eucharist, a word Catholics, Orthodox, and Episcopalians/ Anglicans often use for communion and for the Mass, sounds pretty technical to many people these days. Yet in its origins in ...
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September 17th, 2002
Springsteen Finds Music for Our 9/11 Grief in "The Rising"
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<blockquote>"Coffee cups on the counter / jackets on the chair
Papers on the doorstep / but you're not there
Everything is everything / Everything is everything
But you're missing."
---"You're Missing"</blockquote>
Though the biggest fan ...
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September 17th, 2002
A priest and a rabbi walk into a bar.
The rabbi buys the first round, but the priest is not stingy either and buys the next. They spend a few hours telling priest and rabbi jokes, ...
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August 26th, 2002
Americans Behaving Badly Out of Country
Our internet connection was out�a serious problem for the BustedHalo.com booth on site at World Youth Day (with the Pope) in Toronto, Canada.
So I hiked the hundred feet or so to ...
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June 29th, 2002
I've been listening to the stories of young immigrants lately.
To me they sound to me a lot like the classic tales of the spiritual journey of life. Not so religious really, but they are all ...
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April 4th, 2002
I knew a local cartoonist out in California named Paige Andersen, who one year near Election Day rendered drawings of improbable right-wing and left-wing extremists. I don't remember the details. The right-winger was probably armed ...
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April 2nd, 2002
Enjoy The Da Vinci Code But Don't Believe It
Bookworm friends said they couldn't put it down. More traditional Catholics excoriated it, calling it anti-Catholic. And good New York conspiracy nuts were declaring in the diner where I eat on ...
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March 2nd, 2002
Sex Abuse in the Church
The other day a priest I know, wearing his roman collar, was walking down the street in Manhattan. A mother and her toddler child were heading in the opposite direction. When she saw my friend, ...
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March 1st, 2002
Film Review: Signs
"There are two kinds of people in this world," says Graham, the ex-Episcopalian priest played by Mel Gibson in Signs, the new thriller from Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan. There ...
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January 5th, 2002
Five miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center sits our office-HQ for BustedHalo.com. On the narrow island of Manhattan, five miles is a long way; in our neighborhood there was never any visible ...
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