Catholicism
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Why I’m Voting for Tony Peraica for Cook County Board President
Tonight I called up the Tom Roeser show (Political Shootout on WLS 890 AM) and got on the air as the last caller. Here’s basically what I said: Then Tom Roeser asked if I was Peraica’s brother-in-law. They laughed. Then I got cut off somewhere after I said that it was “time for a change”…
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Evolution is a Fact
So today I taught a first grade CCD class. I read the Genesis creation story to them. One of kids said, "well, when the Earth started there were a lot of volcanoes." I took this as an opportunity to tell the children that "evolution is a fact" about 8 or 9 times. I’m not an…
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Virgin Mary Salt Stain
Here’s a look at the post-defacement, post-restoration salt stain of the Virgin Mary underneath an expressway near my house in Chicago. As for me, I buy it. Is it the Virgin Mary? Sure, yeah, it’s the Virgin Mary. I’ve believed weirder things in my life. Maybe you have, too. Here’s a link to my whole…
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Judging
It’s not easy being a judge. Judges are held out, held up, and looked to do make the decisions for us. To interpret our own scribbles. To give us what we deserve. It hasn’t been a great week for judges. I pray for my fellow Chicagoans, the family of Michael F. Lefkow and Donna Humphrey,…
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Annunciation Catholic Parish on Pittsburgh’s North Side
So anyway my father died last week. Wake, funeral, etc. His death was not unexpected, and he was pretty old and somewhat sickly & suffering, so the services were more on the “celebration of life” type rather than the “holy crap someone just died” variety. Here’s more on him. I have a large family, and…