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Studio As Sanctuary

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Brother Mickey O’Neill McGrath can’t help but grin when he talks about his art studio. It’s been a long time coming for the 55-year-old Oblate of St. Frances de Sales who grew up drawing but wasn’t able to commit to a full-time art career until 1994. When the award-winning painter first visited the row house [...]

art studio, Brother Mickey McGrath, Camden, faith & art, Michael O'Neill McGrath, New Jersey, North Minneapolis, painting, religious art, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal, the spirituality of art, the Visitation order, The Windsock Visitation

Missing Catholics still inspire

Thursday, March 15, 2012

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This month we mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and the luxury liner buried two and a half miles below the Atlantic bobs to the surface once again. But I keep circling back to the shipwreck of 2012, the cruise liner Costa Concordia that struck a reef off the Italian island [...]

100th anniversary, 1912, 2012, Barb & Jerry Heil, Catholic volunteers, centennial Titanic, community, Costa Concordia, Dorothy Day, Dorothy Day Center, Giglio, homeless shelter, Italian shipwreck, St. Paul, St. Pius X, Titanic, White Bear Lake

Parading through homes

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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Spring is almost here and the sweet home-show season is upon us! Time to inspect the Joneses’ mansion and discover just how far behind we’ve fallen. This month we’ll be allowed to try on bigger homes for size, drooling over the amenities on our wish lists and finding new ones to add. And you can [...]

$2.4 million house, 10 commandments, 10th commandment, Brazilian cherry, Edina, envy, house hunting, keeping up with the Joneses, Lake Minnetonka, Locust Hills, mansions, Minneapolis, Parade of Homes

PODCAST- Toss or save a Catholic take on spring cleaning

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

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Author’s cut of the April column Twenty Something.

PODCAST: Eventual Motherhood – March 2010

Thu, Mar 4, 2010

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Podcast for the March 2010 Twenty Something column Eventual Motherhood.

Podcast: Heeding Heidi – February 2010

Fri, Feb 26, 2010

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Podcast for the February 2010 article Heeding Heidi.

Baltimore, MD

Fri, Feb 26, 2010

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Postcard from my Baltimore trip to visit the Oblates.

Celebrating a century, marking a moment

Mon, Feb 8, 2010

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“I found my lost sheep,” the letter began. I recognized the curly cursive and oversized periods. The return address label was classic Joe Pexa — a remnant of a bygone era: a Norman Rockwell image of a boy, a girl, a dog and a white-picket fence. It was written last June to invite me to [...]