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  I've always wished I could be cleverer than I am. Churches that have sign boards often post a witty/clever/insightful title for the pastor's sermon...

  National Catholic Reporter, 11/03/06 by George R. Szews · More from publication

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  I count watermelon as one of summer's greatest delights. I once knew a student who could make a meal out of it. He would lop a melon in half and...

  National Catholic Reporter, 07/14/06 by George R. Szews · More from publication

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  I never really knew her first name. She was always just called "Grandma." I never really knew her first name. She was always just called...

  National Catholic Reporter, 03/03/06 by George R. Szews · More from publication

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  He has a twitch to his eyes that suggests something is wrong, something deeper and more significant than the involuntary movement of his eye...

  National Catholic Reporter, 01/13/06 by George R. Szews · More from publication

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  It's Lent again, and like Jesus, I'll have to die--at least a little--to understand the resurrection. I've picked my poisons; those little deaths...

  National Catholic Reporter, 03/18/05 by George R. Szews · More from publication

• A wild mercy is all around us, though we may strain to see it 

  Looking across a canyon on a cool day you wouldn't notice it, but I am convinced it is there as pervasively as the grace that brings all goodness...

  National Catholic Reporter, 03/20/98 by George R. Szews · More from publication

• Mass a parade of souls that touched ours - Essay 

  A priest who is now a pastor reminisces about the history of the small Catholic community of his youth. Their faith, and the bonds of family and...

  National Catholic Reporter, 03/21/97 by George R. Szews · More from publication

• After all this time, God isn't bored by us 

  Six anecdotal descriptions of human beings who are different, even bizarre are used to show how the absurdities in human life are all important...

  National Catholic Reporter, 10/11/96 by George R. Szews · More from publication

• Those days of Catholic pride and plastic 

  A man remembers the 1950s when the new material plastic was better than wood. A plastic cross was proudly arranged as the centerpiece of the tiny...

  National Catholic Reporter, 03/22/96 by George R. Szews · More from publication

• There's room for hypocrisy in church 

  Socialization during childhood prepares people to practice hypocrisy for the rest of their life. Learning to act the way we should rather than the...

  National Catholic Reporter, 02/23/96 by George R. Szews · More from publication