3 Comments Over the 25+ years that I’ve been traveling a lot by airplane, I have checked my luggage at the airport literally about 1000 times. Maybe more. Once a bag has been tagged by the ticket agent, who then places it on the conveyor belt, it moves toward the rubber-flap draped entrance to the […]
Month: December 2011
An Embarrassing Case of Sacramental Mistaken Identity
3 Comments One Saturday, many years ago, a friend of mine visits from out of town. Looking for some prayerful encouragement and, probably, a kick in the rear to get himself to confession, he confides painfully to me about how he has fallen into a pattern of serious sexual sin — things for which he […]
In North Korea, Tears for fear
5 Comments I’m pretty sure that some, perhaps even many, of these poor, battered, starving North Koreans are only “weeping” because Big Brother is keeping careful track of who does and who doesn’t. Sure, some of them have no doubt been brainwashed to believe the Big Lie, but not all. Now that Dear Leader has […]
Look at these spectacular pictures from the 90th floor of One World Trade Center
Leave a Comment The day I flew into LaGuardia Airport early this year, I missed this. From my vantage point in the air above Lower Manhattan, I couldn’t pick out this tower from the among the other high-rises clustered around what, a little over 10 years ago, had been the World Trade Center. I wasn’t sure what to […]
“Change”: This movie will mess you up . . . in a very good way
32 Comments Watching this short film will be 10 minutes of your busy life well-spent. One of my Facebook friends reacted this way: “If you do not have the time to make a three day retreat this advent, why not make it a ten minute retreat right here and now?” Personally, I couldn’t help but […]
A look at the biblical foreshadowing of The Blessed Virgin Mary’s Immaculate Conception
24 Comments I wrote this article 20 years ago to give an overview of some of the biblical aspects of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Pope Pius IX, who defined this dogma, declared that Our Lady, ”in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in […]
Ah. So that’s where babies come from
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