Tag: Flowers

I just donated to the March of Dimes, the iconic initiative aimed at promoting the health of children and pregnant, women at a time many women are fighting for the right not to be pregnant.

I just saw the trailer for a movie that made me actually tear up.

I once had a client from a country where the instability of the government led to widespread chaos.

When an entire kindergarten class was murdered by Adam Lanza two weeks before Christmas in 2012, I was paralyzed with grief.

I was thrilled when I received an acceptance letter from Bryn Mawr College.

The late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin embraced a philosophy that perfectly captures the official Catholic position on human value: the “consistent ethic of life,” more commonly known as the “seamless garment.”

In the last few years, it has become common to see people put their pronouns in their email sign-offs and to hear the phrase “gender fluid.”

My father did not have a happy childhood.

A few years ago, after I’d written a series of columns about how the Catholic church had borne a disproportionate share of criticism regarding the sex abuse scandal, a number of readers responded with such negativity that they all but confirmed the anti-Catholic bias.

Twenty-six years ago, members of a California-based cult named Heaven’s Gate committed suicide because they thought the comet Hale Bopp, which was passing close to earth in its 4,000-year orbit across the universe, was actually a spaceship that would take them home to paradise.