Can You Miss Someone You Never Knew?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Thursday, June 24, 2010
That’s the feeling Joe Carter has after watching this tribute to legendary basketball coach John Wooden, and I’m with him.
Coach Wooden passed away earlier this month. The poem he cites at the end of the piece was written for him by Swen Nater, a player he coached. Nater explains the poem:
Once, when we were discussing life in the Hereafter, he told me he was once afraid of dying because he feared... READ MORE
Bishop Saltarelli, RIP
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Thursday, October 08, 2009
I no sooner posted the news of Bishop Xili’s death below when I read of the passing of a bishop much closer to home.
Bishop Michael Saltarelli, DD, former bishop of Wilmington, passed away from cancer this morning.
His obituary is here, and here’s a link to a 2005 interview he granted Ignatius Press.
I like this little snippet about finding his vocation:
” I think my vocation was forced. A parish... READ MORE
Thomas Dillon, RIP
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Thursday, April 23, 2009
Many of you no doubt heard of the untimely passing last week of the president of Thomas Aquinas College, Thomas Dillon.
Via our sister site comes a nice obituary with an amusing anecdote I thought some of you would appreciate.
“Dillon had been at a recent meeting of university presidents. A matter of morality came up. One of the presidents, naturally assuming they were all secular relativists—excellent... READ MORE
Fr. Richard Neuhaus, R.I.P.
Posted by Danielle Bean in News on Thursday, January 08, 2009
As many of you have probably heard by now, Fr. Richard Neuhaus—convert, priest of the Archdiocese of New York, author and editor of First Things—died this morning from complications of his battle with cancer.
In this short video (HT NCRegister), Fr. Neuhaus speaks of the importance of young people having the courage to make decisions. He reminds us to have faith: “Be not afraid.”
Some other places... READ MORE
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