But What If It Doesn’t Work Out As We’d Like It To?
My colleague and friend Ginny Kubitz Moyer wrote an incredible piece on the life of her friend Mary. It was strewn with all kinds of things she learned from her…
But What If It Doesn’t Work Out As You’d Like…
My colleague and friend Ginny Kubitz Moyer wrote an incredible piece on the life of her friend Mary. It was strewn with all kinds of things she learned from her…
Should We Pray for Someone Who Doesn’t Want Us To?
That’s the question in my mind today as I remember the life of columnist and the vitriolic atheist, Christopher Hitchens, who died last night after a brave bout with esophageal…
Dave’s Mom
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is always a tough day for me because my college roommate, Dave Connors died on this day in 1995, now 17 years ago. It…
Greeting Sister Death
Condolence to Br. Dan Horan at the Dating God blog on the death of his grandfather and a close Franciscan friend. It has however, given him much to reflect on…
Jesuit Martyrs in El Salvador…We Remember
When I was in College, Jesuits were martyred in El Salvador. A large number of Jesuit Presidents of colleges and universities travelled down in a show of solidarity to El…
Didja Ever Notice?
Andy Rooney, the cranky 60 Minutes opinionist (as I liked to call him) died at the age of 92. He will be missed by those who found his cranky nature…
For All The Dead
Yesterday was All Souls Day and we pray for the dead throughout the month–a very Irish thing to do. We Irish always seem to be obsessed with death, no? I…
The Message Steve Jobs Left Us
Steve Jobs lived each day to the hilt. When he was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he got lucky and beat it, but only for a time. Nevertheless, it gave…
St. Francis and My Dog
Happy Feast Day to all my Franciscan friends. We held a rainy blessing of the animals day here on Sunday, so my pictures were awful and Haze, my dog, doesn’t…