by waiter | Apr 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Now that Pope Francis has gone to his heavenly reward, the handicapping and media hoopla over who’ll be the next Supreme Pontiff is underway. Although Francis stacked the deck, appointing eighty percent of the 135 voting cardinals, I wouldn’t put too much stock...
by waiter | Apr 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
by waiter | Apr 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Now in the twelfth year of my reign and sick of all the ecclesiastical bullshit, I, Pope Sixtus VI, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan...
by waiter | Apr 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
When Martin Scorsese’s film The Last Temptation of Christ came out in the summer of 1988, I was on the cusp of my junior year of seminary. Taken from Nikos Kazantzakis’ 1960 book of the same name, the movie was about what Jesus would’ve done if he took a pass on being...
by waiter | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’ve been going to the same old fashioned barbershop for ten years. With a firetruck chair for kids in the window and an almost exclusively male clientele, it’s most definitely not a chic salon. They don’t offer manicures, facial exfoliants or a private room in the...
by waiter | Mar 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
As Renee and I walked down the main drag of Playas del Coco the noonday sun was beating down like Vulcan’s hammer and I could feel the UV rays busily mutating my skin’s DNA. Even though the humidity was a sedate forty-eight percent, it was enough to make it feel like...
by waiter | Mar 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Almost as soon as my wife’s plane lifted off the tarmac for California, my daughter said, “Remember you promised to take me to the escape room.” “My word is my bond,” I replied. I knew once we got into the escape room, however, Natalie would want me to solve all the...
by waiter | Mar 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
When I got back from Hawaii, I was greeted with a snowy negative eighty degree temperature swing and, to add insult to injury, was forced to dig out my driveway before we could unload our luggage from the car. “Fuck this,” I said, as my thinned blood rebelled in the...
by waiter | Feb 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Today, my family attended a memorial mass to commemorate the first anniversary of my father’s death. Since I didn’t burst into flames the moment I walked into the church, I took that as a good sign. Taking a pew next to my mother, I took a deep breath and prepared to...
by waiter | Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
When I was in seminary, one of my professors told me, “Before God, there was a sense of the sacred.” Long before people started theologizing, they looked at the rising sun, thunderstorms, mighty oceans, and the stars with awe and wonder. Peering into Kilauea’s vast...
