Refusing Communion in Oz
This one comes from Deacon Greg over at the Deacon’s Bench, it seems in Australia, a minister (I assume a lay person who is an extraordinary minister) refused a governmental…
Jim Mckay
Here’s the second of my pieces on The Faithful Departed for 2008. Jim McKay who I never had the pleasure to meet in my years in Broadcasting was someone who…
The Faithful Departed – Tim Russert
It is customary at the end of each year to look back and remember important figures who have died over the previous twelve months. But, instead of offering a laundry…
Always Advent For the Jets
I root for the New York Jets. Not only do the Jets lose every year they seem to be experts on finding out new ways to do it. It’s always…
Doubt
“What do you do when you’re not sure?” Indeed this is the question that epitomizes the entire play turned movie Doubt in which Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep turn…
The Ending of the Year
A lovely, yet, bone-chilling reflection on the end of another year from Nicole Sotelo over at the National Catholic Reporter. And then I thought of Jesus who also wept when…
Be a “Yes Man”
A thought-provoking review of a movie I recently saw, Yes Man with Jim Carrey and the adorable Zooey Dechantal, by the esteemed Paul Jarzembowski over at Spiritual Popcorn. Here’s the…
Merry Christmas
“And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and…
Pope Benedict on World Youth Day
John Allen reports on the Pope’s Year in Review. He seems to say much about what I claim about World Youth Day in my book, Googling God, specifically in the…
St Monica’s kinda…hot?
It’s the feast day of St Monica and this rendering is simply stunning. She could be a model on the cover of Vogue and nobody would question it. Head on…