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Category: Education

  • The Invisible Catholic

    On December 12, Town and Country Magazine asked, “Where will Barron Trump Go to School in Washington, D.C.?” When President-elect Donald Trump and his family move to D.C.—Melania and Barron are planning to stay in New York City through the end of the school year—Barron Trump will be the first First Son since John F. Read.

  • Lunch

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    I had lunch today with a former student, David Stoughton, from my first year as a teacher. David has turned his high school landscaping business in Maryland into a burgeoning real estate enterprise in the Triad area of North Carolina. He started it out in his parents’ garage of course. Our lunch was in the Read.

  • Friendship

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    I recently spoke about Friendship to the high school youth group of my parish -about 150 students. Later, small group discussions were to focus on the Book of Sirach, Chapter 6, on True Friendship, so I tried to incorporate that. These are my edited notes with some of the images from the juxtaposed slideshow that Read.

  • Easy? No. Kids today do not have it easy.

    Easy? No. Kids today do not have it easy.. We vaccinate them against every disease, buckle them into their car seats, teach them not to run near the pool, and we think we are keeping them safe. But it’s their souls that we should be especially protecting, and that’s where we often fail. Like I Read.

  • Brain Food: What Are Your Eyes Eating!?

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    Recently an infographic has been making the rounds about the six major companies that control 90% of the media content that we consume.  Those six companies are GE, Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Time-Warner, and CBS. This parallels the few large companies that supply most of the food in the US. You’ve got a small group of Read.

  • The Locker Room

    I was sitting on the training table in Knott Arena at Mt. St. Mary’s about to get my ankle taped.  It was my first time in uniform for the soccer team at Johns Hopkins University, and it was our first preseason scrimmage of the year. Coach Butler walked in and looked at me, looked at Read.