Personal
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When They Make Me Pope
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The first thing I’ll do when they make me pope is write a brief letter recommending—strongly—that pastors replace the “beautiful crucifix” over…
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Choose Your Classroom
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When I was teaching at the old Jesuit High School in what is now downtown Dallas, my mother was teaching kindergarten…
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No Mass on Sundays
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LorSomething or maybe my Guardian Angel nudged me as I knelt down to say my night prayers. We used to make…
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Snow Angels and Purgatory
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Evaristo Mapruanga SJ, a Jesuit brother from Zimbabwe, had never seen snow. So when he came in 1989 to my program…
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Where Are My Flowers
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WHERE ARE MY FLOWERS It might have been May when the Day Lilies were flourishing up in Audubon Park. I might…
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I Brought You Here
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St. Ignatius Hall in Black Jack (well, across the street from Florissant) Missouri, holds about sixty elderly or infirm Jesuits and…