“average JoeOhio Tour” cont: In Morrow County, we visited the town of Cardington where we passed out campaign info at a youth league baseball game, then we walked about the town passing out info as well. Afterward we … Continue reading
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We stumped in Galion, Ohio, at the Pelican Coffee Shop downtown. Galion’s informal town ‘brain trust’ meets for coffee in a back room here every morning… Later we interviewed Fr. Bob Haas, who is at Galion’s St. Joseph’s Church. … Continue reading
Our family went to a “Thirsting in the Desert” Lenten prayer service at the Catholic Worker House in Cleveland. One of the readings was about Jesus fasting in the desert and then being exposed to a series of temptations … Continue reading
I have jumped ahead a couple entries here. (Will catch up on the rest of the last week soon)… At St. Mary’s Church in Athens, Tennessee, this morning we saw the remnants of a “Cardboard City” that was … Continue reading
In Valdosta, Georgia, I told an NBC News reporter that we were against abortion. During a talk at a Mass in St. Augustine, Florida, I said “abortion would end tomorrow” if we took to the streets en masse, flooded … Continue reading
At Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia, I interviewed Kevin Pendergast, a mental health counselor who was formally with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. He was called in to help facilitate with the “Ulster Project” in Cincinnati. The Ulster Project brings both … Continue reading
Thanksgiving Day: Last night our family went to a drop-in center for the homeless in Cleveland. While there, I met with Carl Cook who is the director of Project Save. It is an agency made up of … Continue reading
I stumped at Donut Land in Brunswick, Ohio, yesterday. Brunswick’s Louann Keith noted that youth today are tremendously over-stimulated with cable television, with computer games… She said that growing up it wasn’t unusual for her and her friends to … Continue reading
I’m coaching an inner city Little League baseball team this summer. After our practice last night, I gathered the youth together and told them I expected them to practice some more between now and the first game. One boy, from … Continue reading
The Cleveland Plain Dealer Religion section ran a story about Northeast Ohio’s Catholic Youth Organization (CYO). They referred to the CYO sports league of some 11,000 4th to 8th graders as a landmark program that puts Catholic (id, post_author, post_date, … Continue reading