As We Pray for Peace…We Need to Change
How often have we used the terms “smackdown” or “fired up” or “he came in with guns blazing?” We debunk others opinions with terms like “shot em down” or “knocked…
Introducing Excellence: Fr. Pat Keleher
Here’s my introduction of Fr. Pat Keleher at the CCMA Awards Dinner. Fr. Pat is this year’s recipient of the Archbishop Paul Hallinan Award for his efforts in Campus Ministry…
Awarding Excellence
I have been in Tampa for the past week at the Catholic Campus Ministry Conference. It’s amazing when you bring a bunch of people together for a conference and you’re…
A Child on Marriage
My friends Marcy and Dan Zicari weighed in yesterday via facebook on the “How to Stay Married” post yesterday. You can’t make this stuff up: Marcy was reading my post…
On That Holy Mountain
Any good scripture scholar knows that whenever someone went up a mountain, it was time to pay attention. Something important was going to happen. The ten commandments, the Sermon on…
How to Stay Married
Yesterday my wife and I went for a romantic boat ride out on the bay here in Clearwater Beach. She’s joined me for a conference and we spent a nice…
An Imagined Nativity
Imagine if you will, being in that stable and watching Mary and Joseph enter in, telling you of the arduous journey, the hassle of having to come all this way…
Between Introvert and Extrovert
Do you hate being alone? Blogger par excellence, Fran pointed me to this piece on the value of alone time and engaging with introversion. But in today’s world, the solitude…
Mass Attack
The AP tells of the tragedy in Egypt where Coptic Christians were killed in a suicide bombing at mass. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt – Christians clashed with Egyptian police in the northern…
We Three Kings
Where did they go? These magi from the East sent by a madman to find the newborn king so that he might destroy him? They returned to their country by…