Random Musings by Kraft

  • 150 Years and growing

    Let us pray: Gracious God, we know that you are present today as you were at our founding. We thank you for the pastoral vision of Servant of God, Fr. Isaac Thomas Hecker and the missionary zeal of his companions. We ask that you bless our Paulist family. Inspire us to use our gifts to…

  • Paulists releases new video

    The Paulist Fathers’ latest video on what is the Paulist mission.

  • 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…

  • sometimes you don’t want your picture in the paper

    Just check out this front page (pdf). Look at it, you should notice something interesting. If you need help, check out the story about a man stealing a wallet with the color security photo next to it. Does the man look like someone you’ve seen before, perhaps in another picture on this same front page?…

  • The Spirit Be With You, Jesuits

    Prayers to our Jesuit friends who will begin their 35th General Congregation on Monday. Rocco has some more on it.

  • 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…