2008: Feeling Adequate…Finally
As we begin to turn the page on another year, I look back on my own experiences in 2008. One of the main things I decided to do as a…
The Holy Family–Joseph’s family and God’s
NOTE: Edited due to a stupid error on my part. 4th graph below is now correct–reading that Joseph died before Jesus died–not before he was born. I simply mis-typed. Apologies…
Newish iPhone Application: ibreviary
I own an iPod touch and downloaded the ibrevary application at Deacon Greg’s suggestion. I’ve seen a few of these types of online apps that one can use online or…
Emilie Lemmons’ Catholic Spirit
A fine writer for the great Catholic Spirit Newspaper in Minneapolis who wrote one of the more balanced pieces on Catholic identity not that long ago. Lemmons fought cancer not…
Refusing Communion in Oz
This one comes from Deacon Greg over at the Deacon’s Bench, it seems in Australia, a minister (I assume a lay person who is an extraordinary minister) refused a governmental…
Jim Mckay
Here’s the second of my pieces on The Faithful Departed for 2008. Jim McKay who I never had the pleasure to meet in my years in Broadcasting was someone who…
The Faithful Departed – Tim Russert
It is customary at the end of each year to look back and remember important figures who have died over the previous twelve months. But, instead of offering a laundry…
Always Advent For the Jets
I root for the New York Jets. Not only do the Jets lose every year they seem to be experts on finding out new ways to do it. It’s always…
Doubt
“What do you do when you’re not sure?” Indeed this is the question that epitomizes the entire play turned movie Doubt in which Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep turn…
The Ending of the Year
A lovely, yet, bone-chilling reflection on the end of another year from Nicole Sotelo over at the National Catholic Reporter. And then I thought of Jesus who also wept when…