In Raleigh today–I got the distinct thought that I’m travelling way too much. I went to JFK this morning and inverted my airlines switching today’s United flight with Monday’s American flight. Fortunately I had some time to spare and I got the airtrain from American to United without much of a problem. As I approached …
Tag Archive: Catholic
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Dec
27
Busy January Schedule
Hey folks: I will be making the rounds to the following cities in January. If you’d like to contact me to speak at your parish or diocese the best way to do that is to email me at mike@bustedhalo.com Here’s the skinny January 6-9 – Western Province of Dominicans Conference – San Francisco January 10-12 …
Nov
14
BustedHalo Retreat
An outstanding retreat experience with a great group of people this past weekend at one of my favorite places on earth- Mt Paul Retreat Center in Oak Ridge, NY. Thanks to all the team members for making this happen. For more on BustedHalo Retreats- simply email me: mike@bustedhalo.com Upcoming retreat events: Feb 3, 2008 – …
Nov
12
EWTN Scandal?
American Papist wrote this interesting post last week: To be fair, Fr. Francis Mary Stone has not admitted to having a sexual encounter–so I’ll reserve judgement here. I wonder what Mother Angelica would say–especially since she would regularly lambaste the more liberal end of the Catholic Church. Regardless, this is the one show that I …
Nov
07
Finland Student Kills
From the NY TIMES: The YouTube video, titled “Jokela High School Massacre — 11/7/2007,” was posted Tuesday by a user called Sturmgeist89. Set to a song called “Stray Bullet” by the industrial rock band KMFDM, the video shows a photo of a building that appears to be Jokela High School. The photo breaks apart to …
Nov
04
St Dominic’s in San Francisco
Has a new podcast: Check them out by clicking here I hosted an event here last week and they are really starting to do some creative things here. http://feeds2.feedburner.com/GooglingGod
Nov
01
Spirituality and Practice
The website Spirituality and Practice has also reviewed Googling God as a book on Questing. See read their review of Googling God here as well. http://feeds2.feedburner.com/GooglingGod
Oct
29
Zenit Likes the Book
Zenit – The Vatican News Service gives my book another awesome review. “Googling God: The Religious Landscape of People in Their 20s and 30s,” published by Paulist Press, is written by Mike Hayes, associate director of Paulist Young Adult Ministries. In the introduction, Hayes explains that while some had doubted if young people were religious …
Oct
25
Where’s God
This needs a lot more editing but I wanted to get some reactions. http://feeds2.feedburner.com/GooglingGod
Oct
22
San Francisco Tour: First Stop: St Vincent de Paul
One of the best young adult ministry outlets in the country had me come and speak to a large crowd of book-buying young adults tonight. We even hit a bar afterwards.John Brust, their fearless leader and their pastor Fr. Ring were gracious hosts.They’re trying to rope me into coming with them on their bike tour/wine …

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