| August 3rd, 2003 Service Call on the Road of Faith Somehow, getting a flat tire in a church parking lot seems wrong. After all, I could have used that hour to get a head start to the beach. Joined friends for ... |
| August 1st, 2003 The Confessions of St. Augustine and My Journey to Faith As for every young man brought up in an Irish household, for me watching Notre Dame football on Saturday afternoon is practically a religion.But that Saturday, in ... |
| July 29th, 2003 A Perspective on the Cost of Denying Women Ordination Nearly six years to the day that I received my first theology degree, I was back in Boston at an ordination (see box below).I was at the Episcopal cathedral, not the Catholic one. Jen, a ... |
| July 29th, 2003 Christian Faith Comes Alive on Pilgrimage in El Salvador Summertime…and the living is on the go. This summer I headed south to El Salvador in Central America.It's a breathtakingly beautiful land country, but with a turbulent history that includes many modern-day Christian ... |
| July 26th, 2003 Letting Summer, Fall, and Company Do Their Thing A couple weeks ago, with Labor Day behind me and school back in session, I gave in to the temptation of calling it quits for the summer, and mentally fast forwarded to the bleakness that ... |
| July 1st, 2003 Poster Boy for Appalling Prelates and…Man of Faith "My deepest vocation," spiritual writer Henri Nouwen said, "is to be a witness to the glimpses of God I have been allowed to catch." Here's one:I attended ... |
| July 1st, 2003 The Magdalene Sisters and Catholic Guilt Guilt and shame are two Irish-Catholic traits that are as typical as corned beef and cabbage on St Patrick's Day to Irish-Americans. It's one thing to be Catholic, but to be an ... |
| 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 ... |
| June 1st, 2003 A Little Bible Study Didn't Hurt For years I've recited the same prayer, every morning as I drive to work and every evening before I go to bed: Lord, help me feel your presence and be nicer to people. But my ... |
| May 14th, 2003 Leaving, Learning, Coming Back for More I know that my mother suffered terribly from postpartum depression after giving birth to my brother Franz and me, yet she and my father weren't finished. One day, Franz and I were being good and ... |
