Living The Faith On A High Wire: October 2011

Denver QB Tim Tebow a Polarizing Force, but Why?...

Last week, as I watched Tim Tebow pull out an improbable win in the last four minutes of the game against the hapless Miami Dolphins, I couldn't help but root for him.

I'll be honest, I wasn't watching the game until that point. I had just returned from a weekend spiritual retreat and just turned on the TV before taking a shower to check the score.

I'm actually a Washington Redskins' fan and only watch the Dolphins when the game doesn't interfere with my family time on Sundays (or blogging time, as my wife would point out). I'll root for them, if only, because of my father and brother, who are both die hard fans (I'm keeping a suicide watch on both since, like me, they also like the NY Mets).

Oct

The Visionary and a Mother's Message of Hope...

St. Augustine of Hippo once wrote, “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”

I’m sure the skeptic might argue that with faith we see what we want to see but, whether that is true or not, without faith, you can’t see anything (at least outside of the material realm, which cannot explain a great part of the reality in which we live).

Oct

From Relative Obscurity to National Champs...

Two years after premiering in the Heartland Film Festival in Indiana, The Mighty Macs, is finally hitting nationwide theatres this weekend.

Billed as a true-life Cinderella story, in the mold of Rudy and Hoosiers (among my favorite movies!), the independent film is about a small town little known all-women’s Catholic school, named Immaculata College, that in 1971 was on the verge of financial despair, with no gym or respectable basketball program.

Oct

Toddler Hit by Truck and Ignored Sheds Light on China's Moral Dilemma...

The video, which has made international news in recent days, is disturbing.

It shows the image of a two-year-old little girl walking into a busy alleyway near a marketplace in Guangzhou, China.

As the little girl is walking and looking back, a truck approaches her and, without the girl ever seeing it, plows her over.

Oct

A Night in Jail, My Dad and God's Fatherhood...

There I was, after spending what seemed to be an eternity in a holding cell, where another “guest” tried to get me to conspire with him to call the guard over and distract him, so that he could jump on him and we could break out, I was finally transferred into a general population cell, where most of the guys were wearing orange jump suits.

It was in the early morning hours and the men were all sleeping.

Oct

Catholicism on Public Television...

The ten-part documentary on the history, beauty and grandeur of Catholicism, which I have blogged about several times over the past year (see here, here, and here), is set to start airing across the country on PBS stations this week (the first two episodes in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale will air on WLRN on Wednesday at 8:00pm and 9:00pm EST).

The documentary, simply named Catholicism, was created by Archdiocese of Chicago priest and well known social media evangelist, Fr.