I told them I was going for a run, but that wasn’t the whole story. When driving to our accommodations in west Cork, I spied from the passenger seat a sign marking a “Lady’s Well and Mass Rock” and pointing up a country path. Chasing down old places of prayer is right in my wheelhouse,Continue reading >>
“Margaret, I didn’t know you were a runner.” “Oh, I’m not, not really” I said this the day after running my 19th half-marathon, and immediately sensed how ridiculous I sounded. “I mean, I’m not really an athlete. It’s more stubbornness than grace.” ********** I started running seriously when I was just out of college. IContinue reading >>
Just a few revisions, they said. I have learned to love revising, eliminating unnecessary words, shifting ideas, and adding clarity to phrases. A few revisions should have been no problem at all. But I was revising a series of passages about prayer, and the notes in the margin posed tougher questions than I was readyContinue reading >>
Pope Francis recently suggested in a press conference that there is cause for the Church to apologize. Responding to a question about a German cardinal’s statement that the Church should apologize to gays and lesbians the Pope agreed, and went further: “I believe that the church should not only say sorry, as Cardinal Marx says,Continue reading >>
Now that the pope is gone, and the spin has been dragged out for a few days and soon will fade from view, here’s what I’ll remember, and I hope you will too. How good it felt when everyone was civil and getting along. I heard countless quips about how remarkable it was that everyoneContinue reading >>
