LGBTQ History Month: Silence at Church is Not a Blessing

The first thing my grandma asked when I came out was whether I’d been taking communion. If I go back to my home parish these days, my childhood...

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Chapel Memories: An Encounter with the Real Maria Von Trapp

Chapel Memories: An Encounter with the Real Maria Von Trapp

Six years after the immortal 1959 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music made its debut, I was accepted into a doctoral program at Yale to...

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Eulogy: Mass of Christian Burial for Fr. Robert L. Beloin

Eulogy: Mass of Christian Burial for Fr. Robert L. Beloin

He drew the distinction between the good life and abundant life.

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Chapel Memories: The Rev. Richard Russell Years

Chapel Memories: The Rev. Richard Russell Years

The Saint Thomas More community was a pivotal Christian environment for me and so many others during my four years at Yale college, which began in...

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Chapel Memories: Eli's Baptism

Chapel Memories: Eli's Baptism

The Pennsylvania grand jury report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church was released a week before my son Eli’s Baptism was scheduled to take...

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