Category: Reflections

  • Catholics Coming Home

    I found a great website for those interested in returning to the Catholic Church. Catholics Coming Home is a great resource for anyone who had left the Church and is considering coming back. It encourages people to connect to a local parish and become reintegrated into the faith community. Pass it along to someone you…

  • Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Churchman of the Year

    Rocco, the man who can find out anything about anything within the Catholic Church has named his Churchman of the Year for 2007: His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston. The story, very detailed with a word count just under 6,000, shares with all what I’ve been hearing from my friends in the Galveston-Houston…

  • The hardest people for me to pray for…

    The hardest people that I encounter in my daily life that are hard for pray for aren’t people who’ve done horrible things. Murders, thieves, and other criminals, I figure they must have had a hard life in some way, whether it be in their childhood, some psychological issue or whatnot, that led their life on…

  • St. Paul would be proud

    Papal Basilica to Open Ecumenical Chapel ROME, DEC. 21, 2007 (Zenit.org).- An ecumenical chapel at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls is one of the first initiatives of the upcoming Pauline year. Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica, announced plans for the chapel in an interview with L’Osservatore Romano. The chapel…

  • 10 years

    Today, it has been ten years since my dad passed away. Perhaps because I’ve been so incredibly busy during the past few weeks, I haven’t really thought about it much. While in school, I would have too much time to think about it and would end up taking an academic dive this time of year.…

  • silent retreat, part ii

    This is the second in a multi-part series sharing some aspects of a retreat I made last weekend. I am a child of the information age. I can hardly remember a time without having a computer at home. I’ve had a website since 1996 (wow, eleven years!) and now, working primarily with university students, I’m…