MLB: Understands Addiction
From MLB Fanhouse: In a display of team unity, and deference to Josh Hamilton’s well known past struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, the Texas Rangers celebrated their American League…
I’ll be damned. I’m a man…
My former colleague at WOR Radio, Noah Fleishman, penned an elegant piece on Facebook today about realizing that he is now a man. Here’s just a snip: I’d been working…
Love That Wife of Mine
Isn’t it obvious? I think I’m going to hire a photographer to simply take pictures of my wife and I throughout the day because we’d probably have at least one…
I Believe Lord, Help My Unbelief
A parish I used to visit on occasion used to do a version of the creed that I loved. The presider would say the words of the creed and the…
Catholic League on Glee and Why I Don’t Agree
Bill Donahue, the resident crankypants at the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, who, by the way, is great as a radio guest, sounded off against Glee. The producers…
OSV Blog: Glee Lost Their Religion
Mary DeTurris Poust over at the OSV blog highly disagrees with my post on Glee yesterday: I mean, do we really believe that the writers of Glee had one of…
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What a Friend We Have in Cheesus
Last night’s episode of Glee was very, very Catholic. The teens explored religion when one, Finn, the singing QB, makes a grilled cheese sandwich on the George Foreman grill and…
When I Feel Hated….
With the rise in the number of suicides, especially amongst gay young adults, we Catholics need to remember that our response needs to be love to all of God’s children.…
What Will People Wear to Your Funeral?
An English teacher I had in high school had us write our own obituary as an exercise. In college, I took a class called Death and Dying where we did…
Seeing St. Francis
Quite often we see statues of St. Francis in the garden, a seemingly tranquil figurine, surrounded by nature and other animals. As the patron of ecology and animal lovers it…