12 07, 2015

Miracle

By |2015-12-08T01:58:19+00:00July 12th, 2015|Life|

As a seminarian in 2009, I introduced two of my close friends to each other at the March for Life in San Francisco.  Although from different parts of the country, they too became good enough friends for Beth to fly out to Denver for Fr. Nepil's ordination in 2011.  There, Beth came to know Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati, a 20th century Italian mountain-climber and servant of the poor who died young; he was found on Fr. Nepil's ordination card. What Beth did with that ordination card led to a series of events (on Long-Island with her family of origin) which were recently scrutinized by the Papal Nuncio of the Vatican to possibly make [...]

2 05, 2015

Fire of India

By |2015-07-10T13:27:26+00:00May 2nd, 2015|Theology|

Y'all know I'm in India, but I haven't told y'all about why I came to India for the first time last autumn. It was to help with a new video on the lives of three saints who came to India (St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Francis Xavier and Mother Teresa.) The short movie was produced by my friend Anand and created by my friend Keenan. My job was apparently to sit on the set and drink chai tea. I was very good at that, and good at little else.  But I'm happy to say it's going to be released on Ask a Bishop, so here's the short preview of what [...]

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