We’ve all been there: stuck in an airport terminal, trying to patiently wait out yet another plane delay. That was me last weekend. For three hours, I waited, successfully draining the life out of my iPod, iPhone, iYouNameIt as I watched the monitors continue to tell me I was going nowhere fast.
With each...
In a few weeks, a team from Franciscan Media will be heading to sunny Anaheim for the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress. This will be my third time attending, and I’m once again excited about the possibilities. I love the theme for this year: “Enter the Mystery”; on LAREC’s...
We’ve all heard of and likely often touched holy water and maybe even exclaimed “holy cow!” or “holy Toledo,” among other and less “holy” exclamations.
But holy dirt?
It was certainly a new one on me, until I had the distinct privilege and spiritually moving experience of being at the site of...
I got a nice surprise today—an email from a man I interviewed for St. Anthony Messenger a few years ago. Sami el-Yousef is from a Christian family that has lived in Jerusalem for generations. After spending some years in the United States, he like many emigrees, decided to move back to Jerusalem to help...
I went back to the desert for a few days last week. Not a metaphorical desert, as is my wont during Lent or other times of spiritual need, but to Phoenix, AZ. Back in the 1980s, I had lived there for five years as a newlywed, and had not been back since a trip there for a conference in 1992.
A few months...
John Feister, editor in chief of St. Anthony Messenger, is in Africa to see firsthand the work of Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
We took a day off after an abrupt change in plans. There was a kidnapping of a Doctors Without Borders group, in a remote, ill-advised location. Medecine Sans Frontieres is prone...
