Would You Donate Your Body to Science?
I turned the corner on my tour of the gross anatomy lab at UB’s med school and there he was: a nude cadaver on a slab of steel in the…
Mother Teresa Going Postal?
America’s Fr. James Martin and David Gibson at politics daily have two excellent posts today on the argument over whether or not Mother (now Blessed for you, ecclesiastical types) Teresa…
Clerical Culture – A Good Thing?
Mary Naughton, the great pastoral associate par excellence for years at the esteemed St. Ignatius Loyola Parish on Park Ave. in NYC writes eloquently about our post on “Why Priests…
The Question for Spiritual Seekers: Now What?
We talk a lot about serving the needs of spiritual seekers online but I often ask a bigger question to many of my colleagues. Once they find you online…then where…
If I Have Not Love…Then I am Nothing
St Paul’s 13th chapter in his letter to the Corinthians has gone the way of the romantic in recent years. We hear this reading most often at weddings but it…
Why Priests Should Wear Their Collars…and why lay ministers need something to identify themselves like it
Earlier this week I went to a campus function with Fr. Pat, the pastor of our North Campus. It’s rare that I see him without his collar on, as he…
On the other side…
The Blog “in Him We Live And Move And Have Our Being” posted this great story the other day. A sick man turned to his doctor as he was preparing…
Who will anoint the sick and the dying?
Deacon Greg asks this important question…and gives this example from the Washington Post “He said ‘I’m a dying man, and I want to see a priest,'” Mary Baus remembered. “All…
Haiti: Moving Towards Hope and Away From Pat Robertson’s God
Joe Paprocki, Fr. Rick Malloy and myself collaborated on an article for BustedHalo® responding to Pat Robertson’s comments on the Haiti earthquake resulting from God’s wrath. A snip: When we…
Memento Mori
At every cemetery’s entrance, Fr Pat Keleher tells me, these words are inscribed: Memento Mori (Remember the Dead). Today I went with the good Father over to the medical school…