Our other staff member injured in the accident that claimed Kortney and her baby, Sophy, is Jon Scharfenberger. I’ve been in constant contact throughout the day with our SFLA staff getting updates. It’s bad, and at 3 AM it turned really bad. It’s gotten worse throughout the day. At this point, we need a miracle [...]
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Prayers for Jon Scharfenberger
Posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2011 | 71 Comments »
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 7
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2011 |
Day 7 “See, my children, if we really wish to be saved, we must determine, once and for all, to labor in earnest for our salvation; our soul is like a garden in which the weeds are ever ready to choke the good plants and flowers that have been sown in it.”- St. Jean Vianney [...]
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bishop Zurek, Father Pavone, Saint John Vianney Novena on September 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today we begin the novena to Saint John Vianney for the intentions of Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek. We begin on the feast of another priest who was recalled for a time, Saint Padre Pio. Day 1 “We have not deserved to pray – but God, in his goodness, has permitted us to speak with [...]
WANTED: Pro-life Medical Students, Resident Physicians, and Attending Physicians
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
As the new National Director for Medical Students for Life of America, I have as my first priority the goal of establishing a chapter of MSFLA in every medical school in the United States. Our outgoing coordinator, Dominique Monlezun has gotten us off to a great start by helping to start fifteen chapters last year. [...]
My New Position: National Director of Med Students for Life of America
Posted in Uncategorized on September 12, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Today I begin a new endeavor as the National Director of Med Students for Life of America, a division of Students for Life of America. A few weeks ago, Kristan Hawkins contacted me about taking the helm of this growing organization of medical students across the country. The group has grown considerably under the leadership [...]
Update on Elise
Posted in Uncategorized on September 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday was a big step forward, and a remarkable one at that. The surgeons removed her chest tube, drainage tubes from her back, arterial line, three IV’s, and sent her straight to a regular floor, skipping the step-down unit. Better still, the rehab doctors came in and ascertained that there is very slight sensation in [...]
Homily for September 11, 2011: 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Posted in Uncategorized on September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On this tenth anniversary of the day that radically changed my life, and the lives of people I love, I’m simply at a loss for words. I wrote last year of my struggle with forgiveness, and I believe that Deacon Greg Kandra has penned a homily for this year that doesn’t at all say what [...]
Semper Fidelis
Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Semper Fidelis!! Always Faithful. It’s the motto of the U.S. Marine Corps. It also describes all of our military personnel. Today we buried a friend who lived those two powerful words to perfection. At the funeral mass for my friend, Kevin McQuade, his son Sean recounted some of the highlights of his father’s life. Something [...]
Of Muppets, Gays, and Rubber Duckies
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2011 | 6 Comments »
News last week that the folks at Sesame Street have announced that Bert and Ernie are not gay and will not be getting married. Hot on the heels of the major gay marriage victory in New York State, there were voices from within the gay community pushing for Muppet nuptials. The idea, quite apart from [...]
Irene, NASA, Jesus, the Poor, and the Rest of Us
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2011 |
A few thoughts for a rainy day, as hurricane Irene bears down on us. People often sneer at the Space Program here in the U.S. and, well-intentioned though they be, they point to the cost as wasteful extravagance. The needs of the poor are often cited as examples of how the money could be better [...]
10 Years Later: 9/11 Claims Another Hero
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Just shy of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, another American Hero has fallen as a consequence of his exposure at Ground Zero. Kevin McQuade, my friend, brother Knight of Columbus, brother Holy Name Society member, father of two wonderful sons, and a devoted husband succumbed to esophageal cancer today at 8 A.M. Kevin had been [...]
Ethics: Biden’s Rosary, Mass, and bin Laden
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bin Laden, Joe Biden, Mass, Obama, Rosary on August 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Deacon Greg Kandra carries a quote of the day on his blog. It comes from an article detailing the Navy SEAL operation on the night that bin Laden was discovered and killed: At one point, Biden, who had been fingering a rosary, turned to Mullen, the Joint Chiefs chairman. “We should all go to Mass [...]
Dr. Scott Hahn Coming to Long Island, September 3rd
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1, 2011 |
Noted Scripture Scholar, prolific author and authoritative speaker, Dr. Scott Hahn, of Franciscan University will be speaking at an all-day conference at Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Hicksville, New York on September 3, 2011.
Catholic Hospital in Colorado Won’t Fire Abortionist
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, Uncategorized on July 29, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Dr. Richard Grossman is the longest serving physician with privileges at Mercy Regional Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Durango, run by Englewood, CO’s Catholic Health Initiatives. Dr. Grossman is at his hospital office one day per week. When he’s not there, he spends 1-2 days per week working at the local Planned Parenthood as [...]
Good Counsel and Hope
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2011 |
As I continue to settle in at Good Counsel Homes, I am finally able to articulate to myself at this stage in life the things that intuitively resonated with me when I did this work in my twenties. Seen now from the perspective of fund development work, which affords me the perspective that comes with [...]
