President Obama For Life?

No not pro-life, for life; like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Comrade Bob Mugabe, and that Honduran wannabe, Manuel Zelaya.
I am not a proponent of CIA sponsored right wing coups, or dictatorships of any stripe. On the other hand, all… Read More

Owning and Killing

On April 27, 2009 Baltimore Sun columnist Susan Reimer wrote an article, “In families’ tragic deaths, a hint of paternalism,” addressing the cause of two horrific whole family murder/suicides perpetrated by fathers. These two were only the latest in a… Read More

Out of Oklahoma — A Model Resolution for Catholic Universities in America

St. Gregory’s University, Shawnee, Oklahoma: Ever heard of it? Me neither, until last month, that is. It’s a small, a very small, Catholic school in Oklahoma, with only 800 students on its two campuses. No big sports teams like the… Read More

The Rape of the Language

Once again journalists have carried off our means of communication like so many Sabine women or girls of Shiloh. Except, the Sabine women and girls of Shiloh actually were women. What journalists have carried off is the actual meaning of… Read More

Company Business

Like any corporation We're guided by the Board.Their faith is Apostolic.The Chairman is our Lord.When we come to worshipWe give God all we've got.But with so many voicesSome say we're polyglots.
First we ask for mercyAnd acknowledge all our sins.Then… Read More

Love and Grief

My parents have been married 60 years. Dad will not be here to celebrate a 61st anniversary with Mom. Dad is dying from cancer. He is getting hospice care at home, but Mom is in charge and is Dad's primary… Read More

The Paradox of Advent

Advent is a paradoxical season in the liturgical calendar. The Gospel from the first Sunday of Advent (Lk 21:25-28, 34-36) makes this clear. We are looking back at something that has not yet occurred, while at the same time looking… Read More

Doing What Comes Supernaturally

“There are two ways: a way of life and a way of death, and the difference between these two ways is great” (the Didache).
The recent and not-so-recent spate of school shootings, and the killings in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and other… Read More

Liturgy, Learning and the Language of the Catholic Faith

In the past decade there has been much written in the field of education about learning styles. Some of us are primarily auditory learners, others visual, tactile or kinetic learners. Great teachers recognize different learning styles and deliver the message… Read More

Random Meditations and Questions for a Self-Directed Retreat

Does anybody else get lost in those labyrinths that are popping up in Catholic venues all over? If you once were lost, have you been found? Why are they called “corn maze labyrinths”? Couldn't they just call them “maizes”?
Other… Read More

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