Looking at young adults, culture, and the importance of community in a life of faith, especially during times of transition and change.
Blogger Shannon Loughlin has been the director of young-adult and campus ministry for the Diocese of Rochester since 2003. Prior to that she was director of the Newman Community at SUNY Geneseo.
- December 3, 2010
- On godmothers ...
Dec. 4 marks the one-year anniversary of the death of my Aunt Ginny, who died too young of ovarian cancer. She was an amazing woman, wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend, and for me she also was a godmother
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- November 25, 2010
- Thanksgiving trivia
I couldn’t very well let the holiday pass without some Thanksgiving trivia:
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- November 19, 2010
- With apologies to Dan Brown ...
The latest news from the physicists at CERN is that they have been successful at "creating" an anti-atom of hydrogen and holding on to it for a relatively long length of time. Soooooo ... I have to admit here that I have no idea what the implications are of anti-atom hydrogen creation. What I found interesting in the press release though, was that the journalist and scientist being interviewed felt it was important to mention that the use of antimatter to create a bomb (as in the book Angels and Demons by Dan Brown) is practically impossible.
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- November 9, 2010
- Holiday blues
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- November 5, 2010
- But wait! If you order now ...
There is nothing like the last few gasping breathes of the political ads season to leave me pining for the return of ads for extraordinary gadgets that could quite possibly change my life. And if you were like me and thought that the political ads this year were particularly heinous, a recent study has verified it to be true.
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- October 27, 2010
- Homer and the Vatican
There has been quite a bit of back and forth in the blogosphere about the statement by L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, that Homer Simpson is Catholic.
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- October 15, 2010
- Steps toward a reunified church
On Oct. 2 the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation issued a new document outlining some steps that the Orthodox and Catholic churches can take to begin to overcome our thousand-year separation.
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- October 8, 2010
- National Mental Illness Awareness Week
Tomorrow marks the end of the 2010 Mental Illness Awareness Week, and on Sunday our local PBS station will air "Unlisted: A Story of Schizophrenia." Schizophrenia is, of course, only one type of mental illness, and the possible causes of mental illness are as diverse -- and sometimes mysterious -- as the potential treatments.
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- September 23, 2010
- How to be alone
This video came to my attention through a weekly newsletter I receive and it led me to some thoughts about how we think about being alone.
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- September 17, 2010
- Newman?
At least a few times a year I am asked why many of the Catholic campus ministries at our local colleges are called "Newman" communities. John Henry Cardinal Newman, the namesake of these communities, was a 19th-century convert from Anglicanism who profoundly influenced both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches over the course of his life. His writing on the idea of a university, as well as his great intellectual giftedness and generosity of spirit, inspired many Catholic communities on college campuses to take on his name.
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