Archive for the ‘Cliff’s Blog’ Category

It is so easy today with all the negativity in our society to feel down and worry that prospects are dim.  I remember someone saying once, “keep your heads up.”  What he meant was …

Fred Miller was as fine a man as I’ve met.  His outlook was positive, his smile warm.  He died from cancer on the day our choir sang Lessons and Carols.  Their anthem, “Never Weather-Beaten Sail,” ends with these words: “Ever blooming are the joys of Heaven’s high Paradise, cold age deafs not there our ears, [...]

(This appeared on my Blog, Praise Be!, on Dec 6, 2011.) Many years ago our oldest son determined in 2nd or 3rd grade that there was no Santa Claus.  This really was a terrific loss for him.  “Well,” he concluded, “maybe there is no God either.”  When I shared this with some Sisters of St. Margaret, there were [...]

Recently, there has been renewed interest in Mormonism because of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and the incendiary comments of Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress. James Carroll is a novelist and author whom I have had a chance to meet. He is a former Roman Catholic priest and columnist for the Boston Globe. In this series of [...]