The latest priest-pedophile scandal, Part 2
A really good friend of mine– an atheist and brilliant guy, sent me some comments on my last blog concerning the priest-pedophile scandal. I asked him if I could share what he wrote because I think he makes a couple of excellent points regarding the scandal and the issue of cover-up that I don’t think … Read more
The latest priest scandal: thoughts by a trusting Catholic
A few weeks ago, it was revealed that a priest in Ireland had been sexually abusing children for decades. Then, cases began popping up in Germany. This latest priest- pedophile scandal is horribly painful for me– as an educator, a woman, and a practicing Catholic. The pain of it exists on several levels: the first, … Read more
Photographs, a life observed
My grandfather kept a stack of 8 x 10 photographs in a hinged, dark wood box on his coffee table. Every time I came to visit he would pull them out and we would sit, on the accommodating black leather sofa that my grandmother hated, and look at them together. “Now Quis,” he would say, using … Read more
