Fr. Lawrence Boadt, C.S.P. – Giant of Scripture Scholarship and Paulist Press President Dies
Sad news today as Fr. Larry Boadt, a Paulist and a world class scripture scholar has died after a long illness. His masterpiece, Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction is…
What Happens When the Love of Your Life Marries Someone Else?
Looks like that happened to Andrew Cohen, the legal analyst of Politics Daily who writes a wedding toast that took a lot of guts to write. The great love of…
Jesus Goes to the Dogs
Beliefnet has the story of a female Anglican priest who gave communion to a dog: A snip: The Toronto Star reports that according to those in attendance, it was a…
Is Ordaining Women Worse Than Torture?
U.S. Catholic has a gem today that asks that question (by the way, the answer is NO!): The School of Americas Watch, which protests the military school that taught torture…
How Do College Students Handle Conflicts?
The NY Times tells us that they simply don’t: “It used to be: ‘Let’s sit down and talk about it,’ ” he says. “Over the past five years, roommate conflicts…
What Do We Do When We Sin?
The movie Get Low with Robert Duvall, one of my favorites, tells the story of Felix Bush, the town recluse. Felix’s sin, long in the past, caused a great deal…
Steinbrenner: He Could Never Be Happy
As many of you know, I covered the Yankees home games for a number of years as a locker room reporter for a few radio outlets. While I got to…
What You Fall In Love with Determines Everything
The snip above is from a quote from the former Superior General of the Jesuits, Pedro Arrupe. It is the quote I display on my Facebook page and also have…
I’m on the Olympic Prayer Team
I was asked to do the invocation at the opening ceremony of the Empire State Games, a Olympic-style event for Athletes from NY State. I remember going to these once…
Should Priests Marry?
That’s the question that Deacon Greg Kandra takes up today over at Patheos which seems to be growing by leaps and bounds and is chock full of good articles. Deacon…