Author: James Hogan
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In the ever-lovely “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” we hear Charlie’s security blanket-toting friend Linus quote a line from the Gospel of Luke. “Behold, I bring you tidings of great joy that will be to all the people.” All these decades later, that ancient truth serves this year as a breath of fresh air. Ironically, Linus…
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Early on in this weird year of pandemic a very ugly trend began. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s face of COVID-19, issued a missive stating that everyone must wear masks in any public setting… and was promptly photographed at a Washington Nationals baseball game without a covering for his face. He admitted to a lapse…
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I’ve done quite a few funerals of late. Not on the scale of Father Regis Ryan at the Archangel Gabriel parish, whose comforting nature and older congregation have made him so in demand for funeral masses that he could likely administer the mass asleep, but more than usual for me. Truth be told, at Faithbridge,…
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“You are voting for (name of local pol), right?” I overheard one neighbor ask another last week. “I’m not, I’m voting for the other guy.” came the reply. “He’s not a Democrat!” “I know, but I asked (local pol) if they’d call for an investigation of the governor for sending covid into old folks homes,…
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When this issue of the gazette hits newsstands, the presidential election will be four days out. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, Americans will decide who will sit in the Oval Office for the next four years. On Wednesday, life goes on. Or at least it should. Whether Joe Biden is president-elect or Donald Trump is reelected,…
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Eddie Van Halen? He can’t be dead, can he? The first time I saw Eddie and his band Van Halen was 1983. I was 14. I didn’t know what to expect. I’d never been to a major concert before, and honestly, it probably skewed the curve for all the other bands I saw over the…
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I have two friends who both joined the Navy as young men. They know and love one another, and both made a career of the Navy, but their courses are quite different. Both figured they’d further their education in the military, advance up the ranks and retire at 20 years. Steve went into the chaplain…
