Patrick is the Digital Media Coordinator at Liturgy Training Publications and is working on a master's degree at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, IL.
I had never planned on falling in love with a Jewish girl. I actually didn’t really restrict myself to any particular religious tradition when considering whom to date. ...Read More
Here in Illinois, Governor Quinn has been pushing hard to close state institutions for people with developmental disabilities, along with some prisons and state mental hospitals. There are a handful o...Read More
For a long time I would cringe at the sound of the word “mission.” To me it represented the worst of the Christian tradition. I associated it with conquistadors and pushy missionaries, trying to ...Read More
For the last decade, America has been a country at war and there has been a lot of talk about supporting the troops as they serve our country. This rhetoric is hard to counter because troops are human...Read More
Since Mary Shelly penned Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, the world of story telling has used monsters to hold a mirror up to the human condition and force questions that, under normal circumstanc...Read More