| author archive Brett Hoover, CSP : 33 article(s) Fr. Brett Hoover is the former editor of BustedHalo.com | September 11th, 2003 Visiting the 9/11 Memorial at Shanksville, PA Shanksville, PA, Sept. 7, 2003—About ten miles off the Pennsylvania Turnpike (about 80 miles before you get to Pittsburgh), Shanksville is small town America incarnate. It must be the mostly unlikely place imaginable for the ... | | August 29th, 2003 Nothing to Do During the Blackout, New Yorkers Did Well The power actually browned out—gradually—in our section of midtown Manhattan on August 14 at 4:10 p.m. But before ten full minutes had elapsed, everything was completely gone.Like for most ... | | August 22nd, 2003 Finding Marguerite's Dream in the Red Rock Desert Ash Wednesday, 1932 An art student stands on the avenue in New York City in 1932, looking up at the Empire State Building, recently completed.Most people from around the ... | | July 12th, 2003 The Curious Novel Life of Pi Uncovers Real Faith Though more than 90% of us in the U.S. say we believe in Him, God may seem no more real to many of us than, say, Arnold Schwarzeneggar?sure, we've seen Him in the movies (Morgan ... | | July 10th, 2003 What W. Said on an Island off Senegal July 10 -- President Bush is off barnstorming Africa, and there's been no shortage of drama from the very beginning.On the Tuesday after the Fourth of July, the President of Senegal, Adboulaye Wade, literally took ... | | June 1st, 2003 A Cardinal Complains, a Board Chair Resigns - What Does It All Mean? JUNE 18, New York - This week the head of the U.S. Catholic Church's National Review Board, former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, resigned suddenly from his post. The National Review Board is charged ... | | May 1st, 2003 Several years ago, after I made a pretty self-righteous remark at a church meeting, I was reproached as having "no right to be so flip for someone so young" (I was 24 at the time, ... | | April 27th, 2003 Learning to Live in the Messy World of Relationships Recently a certain American Catholic bishop, who shall remain nameless, was characterized by a seasoned priest I know as "a man who loves order more than people."It certainly wasn't meant as a compliment, but believe ... | | February 26th, 2003 Scripture Reflections for Sundays in Lent Readings: Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 Rm 8:31b-34 Mk 9:2-10Are you willing to risk everything for love?This may sound like the refrain of a Celine Dion song, but instead it is the ... | | February 2nd, 2003 Slavery in Our U.S. Catholic Past The diminuitive, elderly nun took the microphone before our audience of several thousand at the Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles. As she began, there was a hush: "My grandfather was a slave for the ... |
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