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Savoring, as St. John Paul advised

A drive through the mountains evokes words of Pope St. John Paul.

The risk of being more like Mother Teresa

I saw the statue of Mother Teresa during a visit to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. earlier this year. A pleasing and apt tribute, but a little unsatisfying, and it took me a minute to figure out why: the image is fixed and still, while its subject was always moving.Continue reading “The risk of being more like Mother Teresa”

Sunday Best

The Latin Mass can pack a room, and it ain’t all about nostalgia. (Or, as friend used to spell it, “naustalgia,” which I always took to mean the past making you sick.) One of the old ethnic churches in my New England city has just been re-opened after being shuttered for 15 years. Our bishopContinue reading “Sunday Best”