Pray for Us Sinners
Have you ever considered all the people that have prayed for you? Think of those people who ask others 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…
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…
Seeing St. Francis
Quite often we see statues of St. Francis in the garden, a seemingly tranquil figurine, surrounded by nature and other…
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…
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…
Bob Sheppard’s Love
A final word on Bob Sheppard, the Yankee Stadium announcer who died last week. Many did not know much about…
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…
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…
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…