Happy Birthday to the Founder
10/14 is the birthday of former Paulist Young Adult Ministries founder, Fr. Brett Hoover. A happy birthday indeed to the man the myth and the legend out in “Berzerkely” California.…
More on the Cardinal Egan Fiasco
Egan made another rash mistake…Rocco reports that he slated the emergency priests’ senate meeting smack dab in the middle of a funeral for a popular priest of the diocese. Indeed…
Goodbye Aunt Sis
I buried my mother’s sister this morning. I’m such an invisible person to my mother’s side of the family. I have no cohort group since most of the family members…
Great Falls Jeff
On BustedHalo’s blog–The Spiritual Smackdown we read: Quoting the letter address to Cardinal Egan:“As you would understand, because of the severely vindictive nature of Cardinal Egan,this committee must remain anonymous.”__________________________________________________________________________Jeff…
Two great Egan stories
My friend (who I’ll call Rachel) was on a short flight from NY to Rochester and the good Cardinal was on her flight. So she texts me to this fact…
Vote of No Confidence
My main man Rocco Palmo has the scoop (Scroll down to “Mutiny”)on an anonymous letter circulating to the priests of the NY Archdiocese asking for a vote of NO CONFIDENCE…
Corey Lidle
New York Yankee Pitcher Corey Lidle was on the plane that crashed. This reminds me a whole lot of Thurman Munson who crashed his plane in Ohio. http://feeds2.feedburner.com/GooglingGod
Plane Crash
Everyone here shuddered when we heard a “small plane” had crashed into a building on Manhattan’s East Side. My first thought: “They said the first plane was a small plane…
On “Youth Ministry”
Amy Welborn has a great post on Youth Ministry in which I agree with much of her sentiments. While I am an expert in young adult (20s and 30s) ministry…I…
Old Friends
I had drinks with some old radio friends: Chris Thompson who continues to work at WOR Radio, is a womderful guy who made my time at WOR bareable. We worked…