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Category: Editorial
Sports: There has to be more to it than just winning
I wanted to wait until after the conclusion of the Bucks-Celtics series to write this. Had I written this too early, I might have celebrated the hope of an NBA championship repeat that didn’t come to pass.
A commencement address to this year’s graduates
Dear friends, readers, and critics alike: With this week’s issue focusing on and featuring many of the young people graduating from Catholic schools this year, I wanted to take a moment to address all of them, especially the eighth grade graduates, as they take their next steps in life.
Stop gossiping
I’ve written many times before about the need to talk less. There is one specific talk that needs to be way less. That is, of course, the terrible and useless discourse of gossip.
Back to reality
Today is the day after Divine Mercy Sunday and the day after the Octave of Easter and I’m a little bummed.
Experiencing the Universal Church
The Church is alive and well and truly “universal”. I had the privilege of being part of two moments recently that perfectly illustrated this.
The Roaring-er Twenties?
The last time we had a decade known as the “20s” or the “Twenties,” it didn’t end so well. A.D. 1929 saw a coping with the Wall St. crash, the oncoming Great Depression, and some OGs in Chicago saw to it that the word “massacre” could always go together with “St. Valentine’s Day”.
List-o-mania
Along with giving up Kevin-style luxuries such as drinking cola-flavored sparkling water and playing games on my smartphone, I made a couple of other Lenten goals.
Like it was your last
I have ashes on my forehead today. It’s my yearly reminder that to dust I shall return. I, Kevin, will die someday.
Do you have a story?
If you’re anything like me — and I’m sorry for that — you’re probably brushing that notion off and thinking you do not have a story. You’re just a plain, boring, ordinary Catholic.