Some months ago I was down to take a wedding on a Saturday. The couple had been prepared by the deacon. The groom was from a nominally Catholic family, the girl was unbaptized. So the wedding party turned up for the rehearsal on...
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When trying to make sense of the recent bombing in Boston or the tragedies of Sandy Hook and the...
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When my nephew Michael was getting ready for college he told me he was expected to write a paper...
Read MoreIn all the drama of Thursday’s farewell to Pope Benedict XVI, and amidst all the high level comment, intellectual analysis and historical accounting of his legacy, here are the very personal reasons why Benedict mattered to me....
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I remember as a young priest I was visiting an older woman we’ll call Veronica whose life was in...
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