Pray for Us Sinners
Have you ever considered all the people that have prayed for you? Think of those people who ask others to pray for you and those others bringing those prayers to…
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…
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…
Seeing St. Francis
Quite often we see statues of St. Francis in the garden, a seemingly tranquil figurine, surrounded by nature and other animals. As the patron of ecology and animal lovers it…
You Don’t Know Jack…
About the Assumption…or so says Fr. Jack Collins, who is my buddy and my preaching tutor and who does an excellent and fun job here in this Busted Halo® Video.
She’s a Real Mother Teresa
Fr. James Martin, SJ has a great article on Huffington Post today on how Mother Teresa isn’t any more holy than say, the average housewife. Since at least the Second…
Bob Sheppard’s Love
A final word on Bob Sheppard, the Yankee Stadium announcer who died last week. Many did not know much about Bob Sheppard but we do know that he was married…
The Spirit Prods: You Can’t Take It With You
I’m moving in the next month from our apartment here in Buffalo adjacent to the lovely campus of Daemen College to our first “real” home. Moving often brings with it…
Glenn Beck Couldn’t Pick Dorothy Day Out of a Police Lineup, But Knows She’s a Marxist
From the Sojourners blog today and Robert Ellsberg. It was surprising to see Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, described on the Glenn Beck show as a Marxist.…
Should Martyrs be Automatically Made Saints?
I know of nobody more deserving of sainthood than the El Salvador Martyrs namely: Archbishop Oscar Romero, the Jesuit Martyrs from Central American University and the Nuns and lay workers…