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…
Fr. Lawrence Boadt, C.S.P. – Giant of Scripture Scholarship and Paulist Press President Dies
Sad news today as Fr. Larry Boadt, a Paulist and a world class scripture scholar has died after a long illness. His masterpiece, Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction is…
Should Security Guards Use Tazers?
Shannon Shark over at the Mets Police finds this offensive and I agree. While the fan as Shannon states is a knucklehead, do we ever talk about tazers as being…
Old People Rock
The students and I spent our first full day in New York City at Kateri Residence which is a home for elderly adults. I had forgotten how much fun it…
Laughing at the Cross
One of my favorite experiences comes from a very, very holy priest that I worked across the hall from for years. I went to him for advice about a truly…
Our Befores and Afters
Have you ever thought about how short our time is, and has been, on this earth? The earth has existed long before us and will (barring something cataclysmic) exist long…
Ash Wednesday: Something Must Die
Today is never an easy day. For some, they “come out” as Catholics by having ashes drawn in the shape of a cross on their skull. Others think they are…
One Who Dies Well
Fran at St Edward’s Blog points us to a remarkable women she met and to St. Scholastica as well. Over the months Carol would dip down and come close to…
This Is My Body, Given For You..Try Not to Mess Up the World Now
Thinking more deeply about donating my body to science, I wonder if there’s the possibility that the doctors who use my body might learn something that leads them to do…
R.I.P. – Rev. Joseph A. Novak, S.J.
The Novak brothers Joe and Vin are Jesuits who have dedicated most of their lives to the cause of mentoring and educating those who teach religion to others. They founded…