I had the pleasure recently of sitting down for an interview with Chris Padgett, husband, father, convert, singer-songwriter-musician and youth minister. He and his wife, Linda, brought six of their nine children with them when they visited the offices of Franciscan Media. In the hour we spent together, I...
“Mr. Sparks is on the line.”
That was what I heard in my headset while I was waiting for my interview with author Nicholas Sparks. He had agreed to an interview with St. Anthony Messenger in conjunction with the release of the film The Lucky One based on his novel by the same name.
When I had...
Last month, my family and I made a trip out west—part for business and part to visit my husband’s family. We flew into Phoenix, drove to Tucson for the diocesan conference there, drove back to Phoenix (Chandler, really) for our nephew’s Baptism at St. Andrew’s, drove to LA for the Los Angeles...
My wife was out grabbing a sandwich on a beautiful March evening, sitting outside just enjoying the time when she spotted a typical American family – two parents, a boy and a girl – but – and this struck her as atypical – not speaking to one another. She thought a bit odd, especially as we recalled...
When Stephen Colbert weighed in on the changes in the Mass on last night’s Colbert Report, he almost gave the infamous Colbert bump to our best-selling Catholic Update Guide to Changes in the Mass. I shrieked when he started waving around the pew card, because I recognized it as one of ours.
He hit on...
Nov. 19 will mark the 20th anniversary of the release of U2′s “Achtung Baby,” one of my all-time favorite albums.
I still can remember the first time I heard it: riding in the back of Kristie Karl’s gold Chevy Cavalier on the way from Scott High to the College of Mount St. Joseph...
