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I just want to state from the outset that I value all opinions, even when we disagree, we at least get the advantage of understanding where someone is coming from. So far I guess I have been labeled for weel or for woe, a "conservative" Catholic. I see myself as more an orthodox Catholic, in other words someone who believes in the Church's teachings. As someone who doesn't believe in picking and choosing which doctrines I agree with or don't to suit my fancy. I believe what the Lord has taught,… Continue

“Brothers and sisters:
What will separate us from the love of Christ?
Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly
through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities,
nor present things, nor future things,
nor powers, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature will be able to separate us
from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

That is… Continue

On May 22, 2004 at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston my life changed forever. I was changed personally because I was configured to Jesus Christ, so a mark was left on my soul. I had prepared for this moment for 6 years. This included studying philosophy and theology. This included extensive field education in prisons, in parishes, in hospitals as well as a year I spent teaching religious education to 8th graders in a Framingham parish, a group of students that no one else wanted. All thr… Continue