Reflections
“The Silent are Damned”?
Each issue is the most important issue, and the world would have a fighting chance if I just signed this petition, attended that rally, or marched on the capitol this weekend.
January 17, 2019
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Reflections
The Girl I Didn’t Ask Out
She was funny, smart, beautiful, Catholic, and a bit out of my league (at least, that’s what I told myself, and I’m pretty sure it was true). I really was planning on asking her out – I had the time and place and other such details for our hypothetical first date all thought out – but I never pulled the trigger.
October 29, 2018
Reflections
On the Scandal pt. 2
Honestly, when I wrote part one of my response to the Church’s sex abuse scandal, I thought it was going to be the only part. We all thought a lot of things…
September 21, 2018
Reflections
On the Scandal pt. 1
As a priest said in the homily I heard last Sunday: “the Catholic Church in America is leveled – not destroyed, but leveled.”
August 21, 2018
Reflections
Why the Church?
What is your relationship to the Roman Catholic Church? If we think of the Church as a society and each Catholic person as a citizen, then what does that citizenship entail?
June 9, 2018
Reflections
Experience Rich, Language Poor
However, there was one glaring difference between Mark and me: Mark hadn’t been to church in years, prior to that Easter Saturday.
May 14, 2018
