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Well, it didn’t look exactly like the picture above (which was taken a year ago) but Huntington’s seminary on Long Island is about the same, and we did have a nice dusting of snow on the ground for my weekend diaconate retreat. Now, I’m back. A good time was had by all. For the retreat,…

A friend alerted me to a snazzy new website in Pittsburgh, devoted to vocations. It’s PGHPriest.com — and it’s tagline, aimed squarely at local football fans, says it all: “In a city that bleeds black and gold, we need champions to wear the black and white.” Amen! Visit the PGHPriest link for more. 

New York City has a new place for women to get health care — and it’s unlike any other: Women facing infertility and other reproductive difficulties have a new place to turn to for help. It’s in Manhattan, and it offers something that has not previously been available in the region: a specially developed infertility…

“No sudden flash of insight led my return to God. It was the children who ultimately brought me back–the same group of suffering individuals who had caused me to doubt God’s existence. They buffeted me with questions: Why would God let them be so sick? Why didn’t God make them better? Why weren’t their prayers…

My sister sent this to me. I have no idea where she got it. But it cracked me up.  I think it’s worth posting before the last trees are dragged to the curb, and the final glass balls are returned to their tissue paper and boxes.  God bless us, everyone.  (For an even better look,…

That’s the big headline from a study released last year, and now making news: An April 2009 study co-authored by a researcher who has previously denied an abortion-breast cancer link shows a statistically significant increase in breast cancer risk among women who have had abortions or who use oral contraceptives. The study by researchers including…

Lord Jesus, when you multiplied the loaves and fishes, you provided more than food for the body, you offered us the gift of yourself, the gift which satisfies every hunger and quenches every thirst! Your disciples were filled with fear and doubt, but you poured out your love and compassion on the migrant crowd, welcoming…

This delicacy is a staple for anyone who has ever eaten out of a cardboard carton that was  delivered by an intense young man wearing a baseball cap and a rain poncho and peddling a spindly bicycle with one flat tire. (I should point out: fatty Chinese cuisine is one of the four basic food…

Could an Irish cathedral destroyed by a fire get an unexpected — and very famous — savior? The local bishop hopes so: A desperate plea for actor Mel Gibson to help restore a landmark burned-out Irish cathedral has been made by the local Bishop in Longford, Ireland. St. Mel’s Cathedral was burned to the ground…

A friend posted this today on his Facebook page, and it seems an apt musical interlude for the feast of the Epiphany, since it involves a “star trek” of a different kind…and a manifestation of something, um…unusual. It really has to be seen to be believed.
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