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February 2011

February 02, 2011

The Healy Brothers; a Thrilling, Shameful Story

February is Black History Month, and to kick it off historian Dr. Pat McNamara brings...

January 2011

January 17, 2011

Deacons in the Center Ring! UPDATE

Ladies & Gents and children of mature ages: may I draw your attention to the...

January 12, 2011

Vocation Awareness Week

This is Vocation Awareness Week -- one of my favorite weeks of the year, because...

January 08, 2011

The Setons, Bayleys and Roosevelts

Seton, Bayley and Roosevelt sounds like a Park Avenue practice; they sound like surnames of...

January 03, 2011

"Goodnight, Chesty"

I had never heard of "Chesty Puller" until reading this piece just now, but it...

December 2010

December 23, 2010

Behold! We have always been "radical" -updated!

I very much like this piece by Pat Gohn: "Behold!" is one of my favorite...

December 22, 2010

O Come, O Come

Emmanuel, God-With-Us... Emmanuel, born in Haiti the day after quake in which father died. He...

December 20, 2010

Hecker like the Flour!

Illustration by Dr. Pat McNamara, 1993 I somehow neglected to share with you last week...

December 14, 2010

A Balm for Fried Brains

Longtime readers know that when I get over-busy and overworked there is a crash and...

December 10, 2010

"Are you a woman of God?" UPDATED

That's the question Sr. Lisa Doty got from a kid in trouble: “Yes, I am,”...

December 01, 2010

Finding Closure with Jumper Cables

The latest entry into the Habit of Witness series is a particularly poignant one, written...

November 2010

November 29, 2010

Buster, Gratitude, Hillbilly Thomism UPDATED

When Buster was pretty small, perhaps three or four years old, a priest asked a...

November 21, 2010

Benedict, Condoms, Humanae Vitae – UPDATED

"O Lord, in your light we see light itself." --a 1st Antiphon of Lauds In...

November 19, 2010

The Heroic Ordination at Dachau – UPDATED

Deacon Greg brings us a look at a secret ordination that took place at Dachau:...

November 18, 2010

Oprah to revisit Sisters of Mary

The Dominican Sisters of Mary will be featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show on Tuesday,...

November 17, 2010

Retreating Nuns…

I want to go to there. Yes. I want to go to there. I want...

November 12, 2010

Roman Collar as Yoke and Witness

There is a story--or a bit of blarney, I'm not sure which--about why Catholic priests...

November 11, 2010

Veteran's Day; Soldiers & Saints

Fr. Tim Vakoc, Military Chaplain, RIP A Hero is as a Hero Does Nice posts...

October 2010

October 30, 2010

A Habit, A Bus Stop, A Community

The third entry in the Habit of Witness series over at Patheos is a tiny...

October 23, 2010

"Recognized as a House of Prayer"

Earlier this month, Sr. Mary Catharine of Jesus, OP shared some wonderful insights into the...

October 22, 2010

Fr. Barron on Eucharistic Adoration

It takes a genuine bigot to suggest that Eucharistic Adoration is a practice reserved to...

October 10, 2010

Norbertine Christmas Wreaths!

Just got the order form for the Norbertine Nuns Christmas Wreaths in my email. I...

October 08, 2010

Unemployment Numbers & a Timely Meditation

The unemployment numbers are looking pretty dismal and bleak, aren't they? A while back, I...

October 05, 2010

A Habit Story & a Challenge!

A couple of weeks ago my On the Square piece took at look at the...

September 2010

September 29, 2010

Kids in Chant; Kyrie Eleison

H/T Sr. Lisa

September 28, 2010

The Celeb Names & Why We Care

Earlier I posted a picture of celebrities from the 1940s and asked you to identify...

September 28, 2010

Should Sisters Retake the Habit?

It's the question I am asking in today's column on the homepage, and I think...

September 23, 2010

"They don't make 'em like that anymore…" UPDATED

Settling in for Evening Prayer at Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome Visiting Rome's splendid, often...

September 15, 2010

A Creche, B-16 & Your Opinion, Please

I tease you with a splendid picture (they get a little fuzzy with cropping/shrinking) from...

August 2010

August 26, 2010

Beatifying Newman, Neri & More

One of the books I'll be trying to read while in Rome is John Henry...