What’s the Buzz?

For the past couple of weeks our pastor has been on vacation.  In his place has been an old Irish priest who lives in residence at our Parish.  When I say “old” I am not as interested in his age as in his religion.  We  have been privy to terms such as “co-habitive fornication,”  to…

I have very strong but scattered memories of Thanksgiving. I remember being at my grandmothers  when I was very small before my parents divorced.  I remember being about eight or nine and adding members of of a new family to our already scrunched table.  This meant a kids table and my sister eating on the…

Yesterday, in his address to the USCCB, Cardinal Dolan quoted G.K. Chesterton as a call to redirect in a sense where the conference has been focussing.  “The premier answer to the question ‘What’s wrong with the world?’ is not politics, the economy, secularism, sectarianism, globalization or global warming … none of these, as significant as…