by Kevin Wells | Mar 12, 2021 | Blog, Father Al
“THE BOLDEST MAN I EVER KNEW” Finally, Monsignor James Golasinski was stumped. Throughout the many conversations he and I shared in 2020 while I researched the life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz for my biography Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Story of...
by Kevin Wells | Mar 5, 2021 | Blog, Father Al
FATHER KNEW BEST Of the countless descriptors that have come Fr. Al’s way over the years, perhaps none has suited him better than Father. On this very day, there remain tens of thousands of students, graduates, and members from the Sisters of Mary that still refer to...
by Kevin Wells | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, Father Al, Sisters
BECAUSE OF MARY – FR. AL REACHED FOR BECO’S In today’s One 2 One Lenten Journey podcast, Fr. Dan and Kevin discuss the invisible finger of the Blessed Mother’s that throughout Fr. Al’s life seemed to point him in the directionof endless lines of Mariette Beco’s....
by Kevin Wells | Feb 18, 2021 | Blog, Father Al
THE SHACKS OF OUR LIVES Because our Lenten self-denials often involve a self-amputation of our will, habits and surface pleasures, forty days can seem like four years. Four years. Shortly after his arrival in Korea in 1957, Fr. Al actually made his Lent last four-plus...
by Kevin Wells | Oct 29, 2020 | Blog, Father Al, Sisters
I imagine a sadness that magazine writers, biographers, and authors have each shared is the discarding of veritable gold gathered from interviews. Often, because anecdotes, quotes, or stories don’t match up with written narratives, the profound stories shared by those...
by Kevin Wells | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog, Father Al
To understand the missionary heart of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, one should come to know of the Belgian who helped to inflame it – Chinese missionary, Fr. Vincent Lebbe. “Lebbe stories” had been passed like cups of sugar from one neighbor down to the next within the...
