Author: Tom Faranda

Yes, the first half of December a great month in Farandaville -Tim birthday December  9th Tim birthday today! , we pick him up at the hospital on the 11th  we picked up Tim from the hospital!  and December 12th Brigid birthday.  Here’s Brigid, and she’s got  a necklace Tim gave her – After the Christmas…

Here we are at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, NY. Tim was born two days earlier. The nurse said, “He’s a very alert baby.” Little did we know… And we all look A LOT younger. Go here to see what he looks like today – Tim birthday today!

Gone to kangaroo better place.

Yay Tim! 22. And a senior at St. Thomas Aquinas College, Here he is yesterday at the first indoor track meet of the season, held at Southern Connecticut State University. A sequence from the first round, throwing the (16lb) shot put. You got to line it up … And then BANG! The explosion and off it…

I saw a piece of the Bush funeral but didn’t see this. All four of the eulogies for him were powerful. Meacham here relates the story of Bush being shot down and how it affected him. It’s 12 minutes long.  

This is a short video – five minutes and it's only the first half that addresses and answers the above. Ben Shapiro interviewing an Evangelical Pastor who I'd not heard of before.   

This is from a few months ago on his twitter account. Glad I came across it.  Fr. Martin is an American Jesuit priest, a writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. James Martin, SJ‏Verified account @JamesMartinSJ   What does it mean to be pro-social justice if you defend the life of a child on the…

  Wow! At a really nice event at Fairfield on Saturday, the 17th, with a big turnout of Fairfield rugby people. Well-deserved and I love it. Besides playing at Fairfield (Colin two years ahead of me) we played a lot of successful rugby together for Essex in the 70’s. In fact Colin played for the…

A blowout; Stepinac was ahead 21-0 at the end of the first quarter. Video below, and hit the link for the Journal News coverage. It means Stepinac is still the king of Catholic high school football in New York, with three state championships in the last four years.  

I find his involvement quite objectionable. Here's what he said at the end of August when certain accusations were made regarding what the Pope knew or didn't know about Cardinal McCarrick. "The Pope has a bigger agenda," Cardinal Cupich said. "He's got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment and protecting…