Francis X. Maier

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  • Dec 29, 2025
    As a child in the 1950s, I had a different experience. My parents were Christmas addicts. The season was glorious. It began the day after Thanksgiving and rolled on through early...
  • Oct 22, 2025
    Let’s start with a thought experiment. A foreign-looking family knocks on the door one evening and asks for a place to stay. I’ve never seen them before. They look...
  • Jul 7, 2025
    There was a window from the late 1980s through the early 2000s when the sex abuse of minors seemed to be a predominantly Catholic Church problem. At least in the United States, that...