Who We Are
Samer al-Batal, a born Byzantine
Christian who belongs to the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, is originally
from Syria, has lived in Canada and the Lebanon. (Link: Samer and his
mother on the steps of the Eastern Orthodox
shrine of Said Naya, Syria, 2004.)
Here he
describes his background. |
John Boyden, our
traditional Roman Rite member (more), has known John Beeler in person since the
1980s and lives in Rome and sometimes in London. (Link: John, right,
gives TV travel-show presenter Rick Steves,
left, a tour of the Vatican.) |
Dave McLaughlin, a Sept. 11
World Trade Center survivor and Irish
Gaelic speaker (Daithí Mac Lochlainn) who worships at
St Michaels Russian Catholic
Church, lives in New York. In January 2005 Dave stepped out and started his
own blog, The Gaelic Starover, which hes since replaced with Keltalingvaj Novajoj (which
uses Esperanto!), about Celtic languages. |
Lee Penn, a
Russian Catholic after being an
Episcopalian for about 20 years, lives in San
Francisco. (Here is a short article on Lee.) |