NBC News aired a story Dec. 3 and Dec. 4 about how children at an Atlanta school were taken to the hospital Dec. 3 after their school was filled with the colorless, odorless and tasteless gas known as carbon monoxide. That school reportedly doesn’t have carbon monoxide detectors. In 2011, aRead More
Sheridan “Dan” Reaver, a 1975 alumnus of Mother Seton School in Emmitsburg, and president of Emmitsburg Glass Company, was recently named a distinguished volunteer by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.Read More
If you’re a fan of the show “Doomsday Preppers” on the National Geographic Channel, then you are also familiar with the terms “prepper,” “bug out,” and “i.n.c.h. bag.” If you haven’t heard of it, you might think it’s just a show about more crazy people who think the world isRead More
Charles Dickens’ classic, “Great Expectations,” opens on Christmas Eve. It introduces us to Pip, an orphan who was being raised by his sister and her husband. As a boy, Pip didn’t think he’d amount to much but his chance encounter with a convict (Magwitch) and with a rich elderly woman (Miss Havisham) and her daughter...Read More
A National Black Catholic Men’s Conference was held recently at the Laurel Holiday Inn. I am known as one who does not attend such conferences but something drew me to this one and I am glad that I attended. I am also glad and proud to be a “Black Catholic man.” Can you as a...Read More
With both vice president candidates calling themselves Catholic, that should have been a good teaching point for our Sunday sermons before the election.Read More