Antoinette Pacini prays during Sunday mass at the Galvez Hotel, which was headed by a priest from Sacred Heart Cathedral Galveston. Photo by Mayra Beltran, Houston Chronicle. Galveston was hit hard by Hurricane Ike, and some of the most severely damaged public places were houses of worship. But it takes more than wind and water…

I stumbled across this news story during my usual Google search this morning and thought: “They buried the lede.” A Mississippi chef who is also a deacon? That’s news! Take a look: Bill Vrazel gets a kick out of those high-strung television chefs who throw fits when things don’t go their way. But Vrazel, a…

“Television is to blame for exactly 57 percent of America’s civic ills. I could prove it if I had the space. Television came of age at a time when Americans were becoming more mobile geographically and spiritually. We moved around more and lived with family and lifetime confidantes less. We rejected tradition, inherited values and…

Economically, it seems like we have walked to the edge of the Grand Canyon and peered over and watched pebbles fall noiselessly to the bottom. And all we can do is clutch a nearby railing and feel the tug of vertigo and mouth a terrified: “Holy crap.” Or words to that effect. The inconvenient truth…

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