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January 23rd, 2012
You know, I probably shouldn’t say this, ...
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January 12th, 2012
When you study to be a priest, attending Mass is as much of a part of one’s routine as brushing your teeth and applying deodorant. It ...
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December 31st, 2011
(1942 – 2011)
When Clarence Clemons joined the E Street Band in October 1972, I was six months old. He was just beginning his musical ...
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December 24th, 2011
My wonderful five-year-old nephew has been asking questions about a certain topic the past few months. He has been talking with all of these boys at school and my sister—his mother—decided that he was ready. ...
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November 24th, 2011
Sarah Josepha Hale was an American writer and an influential editor throughout most of the 19th Century and while most writers would be thrilled to be able to claim having made one major impact on ...
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October 6th, 2011
“We believe that people with passion can change the world for the better.”
This summer, I spent a lot of time in a room that overlooked the ...
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September 10th, 2011
I probably shouldn’t say this, but I REALLY do not like the Sunday Gospel... the one where ...
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August 29th, 2011
“Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do ...
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August 17th, 2011
As my summer draws to a close, I've been reflecting on my feelings of starting a new year of seminary.
In order to answer the question, ...
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August 5th, 2011
When 10,000 Maniacs visited Loyola College in Maryland in 1990, I did not go. As a college freshman who was only a few months removed from the “Hair ...
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June 19th, 2011
The thing about studying theology, especially Catholic theology, is that you have to learn all of these new words… Greek words. Have you ever heard the phrase, “It’s all Greek to me?” Well, after three ...
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June 6th, 2011
I was working on my homily that I would be giving on Pentecost Sunday and doing what I usually do when I am preparing homilies... procrastinating on the Internet. So while browsing Busted Halo's offerings, ...
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April 29th, 2011
I love The Onion. I do. If there is one media source that I can go to at any given time and KNOW that I'm ...
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April 2nd, 2011
The scene: 10 eighth-grade religious education students, their teacher, and yours truly—a plucky seminarian who was brought in for “Vocation Awareness Day.” I talk, explaining the many ways we can all serve God in our ...
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March 22nd, 2011
In today’s media environment, we invariably hear the stories about which things go wrong. I guess it's human nature to focus on the negative, but the focus of news organizations do have its place. I ...
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February 15th, 2011
I recently heard that the second priest to have ever dined in my parents' home had been implicated in sex abuse scandal. As a former child abuse prosecutor and now mother of four, ...
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January 26th, 2011
In retrospect, I realize it wasn’t fair that the shooting in Arizona two weeks ago was immediately blamed on the poisonous quality our political discourse ...
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January 7th, 2011
While I adore the parish at which I am serving this year, I sometimes wonder if it is run by Quakers rather than Catholics. Because at the beginning of Daily Masses at my Church, only ...
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January 4th, 2011
The passing of Barbara Billingsley (1915-2010), Peter Graves (1926-2010) and Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010)
Bob Hope, at his peak, was considered one of the funniest men on the planet. But show his performances to someone from the generations ...
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December 22nd, 2010
I realize that in my last post, I might have come off as kind of a grump… exams and papers will do that to you. Not that I take back anything that I said regarding ...
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