On Food & Culture
Last night on “24” when Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is about to inject himself with heroine, his arm reveals a HUGE tatoo of The Virgin of Guadalupe. He apparently got this (tattoo and heroine) from infiltrating the group of Latino drug dealers. Guadalupe is still …
Healing one another, accompanying each other, trusting. These are evocative words from the video production I have just completed. They are also the words of true leaders in this debate about Bishop Robinson in the Anglican Church. Note this dated but relevant letter from Bishop …
This visual explanation of the size of 87 billion is yet another wake up call. Got the link from Mary’s blog. Ad�n
I had previously visited the church of Sant’ Egidio in Rome, Trastevere square. But during a visit last September with colleagues, I was reminded of the lay community that has its roots in that church, since 1968. The community is a prophetic and actual sign …
Today I’ve finished editing the video/dvd production, “Portraits of Faith: The Church in America” so I’ll be writing here again regularly. Happy St. Jude, the saint of the Catholic calendar for today. St. Jude is the name of my home parish in San Antonio. The …
I’ve mentioned Diakon�a before. If you are looking for short videos, in Spanish, on a range of topics like human dignity, abandoned children, the eucharist, write to the director, Fr. Hugo Ara, and ask for a a vhs tape containing some of this material that …
Alberto Pigola has been working with me here in houston for two weeks. Yesterday he returned to Montevideo, Uruguay. While here, he made me realize more clearly that technologies are moving so fast toward smallness, efficiency and ubiquity. On my little computer, we were able …
Am at MACC in San Antonio, and we are considering whether to use the on-line teaching resource of nicenet.org. It’s great to see a national pastoral training center taking strong steps to enter the digital age of religion. Adan
Was so busy yesterday that I realized it was a holiday only after I tried to make business calls and found that offices were closed. Columbus day throughout Latin America and Latino USA is celebrated as “D�a de La Raza.” “Raza” does not translate as …
I’ve been editing a DVD project and that is why I’ve been absent these many days. Toward the end of the week I’ll be finished with it, a 20 minute reflection about Catholics who live Mexico, Peru and the Dominican Republic. More on this later. …