This week of August 22, I arrived in South Carolina to be an Oratorian seminarian. The year was 1964. In my experience that year was in between the Hungarian revolution in 1956…the first international event that I followed, the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, the Berlin Wall crisis, the Cuban missile crisis, the JFK assassination, the [...]

In 1964 I left Hawaii to join the Oratory in South Carolina. It was the only established house of its kind in the US. In those days we observed as a general rule silence at meals (there was, for better or worse, a reader and reading assigned). Religious holidays as well as secular holidays were [...]

Just as I was starting this post my supervisor Rabbi David Teva came in so we could start clearing out the common fridge so Passover items can be stored. The oldie moldie will be thrown out to make way for the new.
This Holy Week, Holy Thursday, will spot light priesthood among other things. The pope [...]

This is St joseph’s Hospital in Kansas City Missouri where I went for an operation after first grade. There I met Catholics in some numbers including the Carondolet sisters…It was their kindness that helped me overcome all the bad stories I heard about RCs later…though at times, I wish they had not been so kind [...]

I love Helen Keller. When I was in junior high I was desperate to “see” what she saw. I blind folded myself and went around the house “blind” so I could get an idea. It was supposed to be a three day experiment but my mother cut it off immediately, fearing that God would punish [...]

This season, for Christians, the celebration of the Prince of Peace, has a special sense in the Pacific. That huge ocean…998 parts water even counting  New Zealand  as part of the land mass…was a “logical” place for nuclear testing in the air. And that was what happened in the 1950s and early 60s…the test ban [...]