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April 12th, 2002
A College Student's Spiritual Journey from Minnesota to Thailand
Ever since growing up in Frazee, Minnesota, a small town with a population of 1,700 people, and living next to two Lao families, I had a dream of going to the Thailand/Laos. (Similarly, both ...
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April 6th, 2002
Justly Revisited
It was until my freshman year in college that I read the book "Farewell to Manzanar" - the true account of a Japanese-American family's struggle as prisoners in a U.S. internment camp during WW II. ...
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April 4th, 2002
I knew a local cartoonist out in California named Paige Andersen, who one year near Election Day rendered drawings of improbable right-wing and left-wing extremists. I don't remember the details. The right-winger was probably armed ...
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March 29th, 2002
A Canadian View of Americans in the World
It was an early April morning when I awoke to the news that an American pilot had bombed a Canadian training exercise in Afghanistan and killed four Canadian soldiers. I sighed and prepared for the ...
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March 28th, 2002
My List to Keep the Prez Busy After Saddam
One of my favorite buttons, which I attached to my backpack during my freshman year in college, was one that sported a photo of Frank Sinatra and read, "It's Frank's world; we just live in ...
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March 28th, 2002
Young People and the Catholic Peace Movement Today
As images of war fill a greater share of the nation's TV news, many Catholics are tuning in to organizations like Pax Christi USA to uphold the doctrine of nonviolence. A peace movement ...
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March 18th, 2002
It's widely recognized that children who grow up in the midst of criticism tend to criticize others. Children raised with violence are at risk for perpetuating violence as adults. And children who grow up with ...
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March 8th, 2002
A Coming-of-Age Tale with Animated Catholic Villains
Catholic high school boys battle adolescent angst while devising pranks against authority figures in the imaginative, entertaining, and heartbreaking film, "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" (ThinkFilm).
This adaptation of the late Chris Fuhrman's novel, directed ...
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March 2nd, 2002
A Bad Case of 'Sympathy Envy' for the USA
Could it be that the United States is suffering a severe case of "sympathy envy" these days?
Surely no other nation's been too keen on the morality of U.S. war aims since it earned the honor ...
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March 2nd, 2002
Sex Abuse in the Church
The other day a priest I know, wearing his roman collar, was walking down the street in Manhattan. A mother and her toddler child were heading in the opposite direction. When she saw my friend, ...
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