Paul’s Predestination
My scripture reflection for my 19th Annotation retreat today is: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual…
The Walls We Put Up
“Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house.” Zaccheus was a wealthy tax collector who probably lived in what we would consider a “gated community.” People…
Sunshine in Buffalo?
It’s a question I get from my downstater friends and others around the country often: How’s the weather? Are you buried under snow? And while the winds of fall bluster…
Do We Have a Church If We Don’t Have Priests?
Deacon Greg pointed me to this video which has excellent production values on a group of newly ordained priests. Beautifully done and a nice keepsake for these men of their…
Missing Bill McGarvey
I’m all a mix of emotions today—from sadness to undying gratitude. It’s official…the end of an era at Busted Halo. Bill McGarvey, the site’s editor-in-chief for the past five years…
Is Your Ego Too High or Too Low? The Pharisee and Tax Collector
Did you ever feel like a fish out of water? Let me tell you a quick story…at the beginning of the semester, I went over with the med students to…
Being Found By Love
Fr. Mark Mossa’s new book, Already There: Letting God Find You is amazing! There is a tidbit of wisdom in nearly every paragraph which will find its way into the…
Freddy Sez: “Rest in Peace”
One of the joys of going to Yankee Stadium and one of the great highlights of my time covering the team as a reporter was simply being around a man…
I’ll be damned. I’m a man…
My former colleague at WOR Radio, Noah Fleishman, penned an elegant piece on Facebook today about realizing that he is now a man. Here’s just a snip: I’d been working…
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What a Friend We Have in Cheesus
Last night’s episode of Glee was very, very Catholic. The teens explored religion when one, Finn, the singing QB, makes a grilled cheese sandwich on the George Foreman grill and…