The Walls We Put Up
“Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house.” Zaccheus was a wealthy tax collector who probably lived in what we would consider a “gated community.” People…
After a Hostile Takeover, We’re Back
So the site was broken into last night by some kind of weird hate group. For those who were offended or thought I had gone off my rocker, apologies. Looks…
Sunshine in Buffalo?
It’s a question I get from my downstater friends and others around the country often: How’s the weather? Are you buried under snow? And while the winds of fall bluster…
Do We Have a Church If We Don’t Have Priests?
Deacon Greg pointed me to this video which has excellent production values on a group of newly ordained priests. Beautifully done and a nice keepsake for these men of their…
Missing Bill McGarvey
I’m all a mix of emotions today—from sadness to undying gratitude. It’s official…the end of an era at Busted Halo. Bill McGarvey, the site’s editor-in-chief for the past five years…
Is Your Ego Too High or Too Low? The Pharisee and Tax Collector
Did you ever feel like a fish out of water? Let me tell you a quick story…at the beginning of the semester, I went over with the med students to…
Do You Grieve for Those Who Leave Catholicism?
Peter Steinfels is grieving the loss of adherents to Catholicism today in Commonweal. This analysis is fairly spot-on: Most of us base our impressions (GG editor’s note: of disaffected Catholics)…
Being Found By Love
Fr. Mark Mossa’s new book, Already There: Letting God Find You is amazing! There is a tidbit of wisdom in nearly every paragraph which will find its way into the…
Vatican’s New Internet Evangelization Office Can’t Get the Hook Up
Classic fail: Archbishop of the Vatican’s New Internet Evangelization Outreach presently does not have internet access. So says Britain’s Catholic Herald. The head of the new pontifical council charged with…
Freddy Sez: “Rest in Peace”
One of the joys of going to Yankee Stadium and one of the great highlights of my time covering the team as a reporter was simply being around a man…