What’s Your Favorite Christmas Tradition?
While we begin or finish our Christmas shopping, begin to at least buy a new decoration or two or get those cherished ornaments down from the attic, I am reminded…
BVM World Tour: Green Bay
The Diocese of Green Bay has approved a Marian apparition as legitimately worthy of belief. The Most Rev. David Ricken has approved the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Hope…
Immaculate Conception
15 years ago today, I received a phone call that I wish I had never gotten. Dave Connors one of my college roommates had died after a long illness at…
Cubs Legend Ron Santo Dies
A sad day for Cubs fans as their former nine time All Star third baseman and longtime broadcaster, Ron Santo has died at the age of 70. Santo holds a…
Flurries from Heaven
Today we have the first sign of snow in Western New York as we start our December. It made me recall an article I wrote for BustedHalo® many moons ago.…
My Saint Andrew
So today is the feast day of St. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter and the first to recognize the messiah. He was a fisherman who became a fisher of…
Dorothy Day: The Saint Without a Stained Glass Window
Today is the 30th anniversary of Dorothy Day’s death. Bridges and Tangents sums up my own feelings better than I could: It was the simplicity of her love – for…
College Students: Competitive or Collaborative?
Amanda Woods, one of the students at UB who I’ve gotten to know penned an excellent commentary in the UB Spectrum recently: A significant shift happens in college: people who…
Katie Makkai: Will I Be Pretty?
This is amazing. A hat tip to Lydia Moore, my colleague who supports the Catholic volunteers with Marion and I. I know she’s speaking to women mostly here. But I…
I No Longer Deserve to Be Called Your Son
Imagine saying the words that the Prodigal Son utters to his Father? I can’t imagine doing something so awful that I would be afraid to go to my father and…