Danny O'Connor

Incredible. #CBJ

“For all the young people out there, those dreams are formed now. Go chase them and go get them, because our country loves sports and it brings us together unlike anything else. And if you didn’t know that…you saw it in Team USA Hockey” What a signoff from Tirico just now🇺🇸

Johnny Hockey forever

USA USA USA. Way to go boys - incredible job to win the gold. Especially proud of our own Zach Werenski for a great Olympics and the game winning assist.

46 years after the Miracle on Ice… Team USA is chasing its first gold since 1980 🇺🇸🥇

#CBJ vs. #Smashville on March 3 will be Hockey Is For Everyone Night in Nationwide Arena. #CBJ are offering a Pride Ticket Package for members / allies of the LGBTQIA+ community, including a #CBJ Pride sweater, w a portion of each ticket going to Stonewall Columbus. #progress

That face when you score your first Olympic goal 🤩 #MilanoCortina2026 #WInterOlympics

Incredible halftime show that served as a beautiful representation of our beautiful country! USA USA!!

Rooting for all of the Ohioans on Team USA! Good luck, I know you’ll make us proud.

In her Olympic debut, Laila Edwards helped the U.S. Olympic Women's Hockey team beat Czechia 5-1. In doing so, Edwards became the first Black woman to play for USA Hockey at the Olympic level. 🔗 clevelandmagazine.com/articles/how-l…

The rise of Nashville + Columbus a 21st century story that deserves a few books, especially when set against other cities in their states x.com/Phil_Lewis_/st…

The Franklin County Recorder’s Office will be closed Monday, January 26, 2026 due to inclement weather. Please stay warm and safe out there. ☃️

When they teach about this shameful time in America’s history, this picture will be front and center. This is Liam Ramos. He’s a 5-year-old boy in Minnesota who was arrested by ICE and then used as bait to lure his family members into custody—even though they are legal asylum seekers. Liam and his family members have been shipped to an ICE detention center 1200 miles away from their home. His preschool teacher, Ella Sullivan, had this to say about Liam: “He’s a bright young student, and he’s so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him, and all I want is for him to be safe and back here.”

departed Brigid is still making a difference, just from heaven.

me and said: “Good morning! A couple years ago you lit the spark that we should talk with Jeni’s employees. Yesterday, by a 2-1 margin, Jeni’s workers in Columbus voted to join our Union. Thank you!!!” I could not be more thrilled about this and am glad that our dearly

I was thrilled to hear last week that Jeni’s workers voted to join UFCW 1059. A sad but fun story regarding this - I was at Brigid Kelly’s funeral & when I got home, got some ice cream down the street. I remember thinking that the workers there could use a union, because everyone

Sharing this remarkable image, José y Maria, by Everett Patterson, seems even more urgent this year. In the past, I’ve delighted over the clever visual puns (Dave’s City Hotel, Weisman cigarettes and Mary’s “Nazareth High School” sweatshirt) and in the reminder that Mary and Joseph were, like this couple, desperate young people looking for lodgings, when there was “no room at the inn,” as one translation of Luke’s Gospel has it. In the past few years, there has been an intense debate (mainly online) over whether Mary and Joseph were refugees. To me, it seems clear that they were, at least during the “Flight into Egypt” where they flee a murderous king, leave Galilee and travel to Egypt to take refuge. That fits the classic description of a refugee: someone who leaves their homeland out a “well founded fear of persecution.” Some people say, well, they were still in the Roman Empire, which is beside the point. Do we really think that a poor couple from Galilee would have considered Egypt their homeland? Popes since at least Pope Pius XII have agreed. He called the Holy Family the “archetype of every refugee family.” But before that, as a couple looking for lodging, they mirror thousands of couples and families today who have been denied “room at the inn.” In the United States, couples and families (and children) looking for “room” have been harassed, rejected, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and tortured. “No room at the inn.” I will never understand how people can treat other human beings like this—even if they are, or are assumed to be, somehow breaking the law. Christ is present in every person, and every person has infinite dignity--whether you are Joseph and Mary, José y Maria, or an unknown person looking for room for their family. If we delight in making room in our homes for our Nativity scenes, and delight in making room for Baby Jesus in the creche’s manger, can we make room for Christ, who is present in every migrant and the refugee? José y Maria, pray for us. (Image: "José y Maria," Everett Patterson everettpatterson.com)

Please see the link below for more information: columbuscatholic.org/bishop-earl-k-… #DioceseofColumbus #ColumbusCatholic

Grateful to our Bishop (and my dear friend and former parish priest) for his leadership on this issue. No one should be afraid to go to Mass.