Our Common Home

Our Common Home

“…our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us.” ~ Pope Francis Yesterday, May 10, marked the 106th observance of Mother’s Day as a national holiday across America. Crass commercialism...
Ya Got Trouble!

Ya Got Trouble!

Trouble, oh we got trouble, right here in River City! With a capital “T” that rhymes with “P”and that stands for P…  In Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man, the sleepy little town of River City is woken up and thrown into a moral panic when Prof....
Are We Really “All In This Together?”

Are We Really “All In This Together?”

In an earlier post from April 7 I commented briefly on a popular cliché that has become the go-to mantra of the current pandemic, “We’re all in this together.” Three weeks hence and a revealing set of data later, it has become clear that the message conveyed in this...
Breathe on me, breath of God

Breathe on me, breath of God

Breathe on me, breath of God Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”  When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit…” [John 20:21-22] It’s Sunday evening, the end of the worst...