I’ve always thought of myself as a quiet kind of guy. In fact when I was younger, I definitely tended to be introverted. Oh, I could speak up when the occasion demanded, but I was more comfortable sitting back and let other folks do the ranting, if ranting was called for. I abhorred making a [...]
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Posted by permission of the author. This article appeared in Notre Dame Magazine, Summer 2004, Vol. 33, No. 2, p. 34-38. Mark gazed out the small window of his dorm room. It was Saturday morning and the bitter cold bleakness outside matched his mood. He may have made a mistake going to school so far north [...]
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Written by Leonard J. Szumiloski; Published in Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, Speaking Out, Nov. 6, 1998 As the father of an adult gay son, my journey from the initial shock of discovery to acceptance of an attribute over which he had no choice has been long, difficult and sometimes painful. On that journey, my eyes [...]
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Published in Open Hands: a unique resource on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Concerns in the Church, Fall 1998 Can Jim be gay and Catholic? That became the big question for me after I got over the initial shock and confusion of learning our son is gay. While Mary Ellen (my wife and Jim’s mother) rode the emotional guilt/doubt/grief roller [...]
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Published in Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY, Speaking Out, Thursday, April 8, 1998 As a practicing Roman Catholic, I sat in my pew on “Holy Family Sunday”, the Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and heard our wonderful deacon, a most dedicated, pious and sincere man, give a homily on some of the “evils [...]
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