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The Church still stands: Remembering the promise of Easter Sunday after the Notre Dame Cathedral fire
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 4/2019 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and…
Pulse massacre in Orlando – another senseless shooting, and more tweets of thoughts and prayers – It’s time to DO something.
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City paper 7/2016 Brace yourselves, this one isn’t summer fluff,…
Remembering Leonard Nimoy
by Robert Gillis 2/2015 I am deeply saddened by the passing of Leonard Nimoy. The man from Boston who…
Musings on the latest blizzard of the 2014-2015 snowpocalypse season
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 2/2015 This past Valentine’s Day weekend, depending on…
Robin Williams, 1951-2014
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 8/2014 In September 1978, at one of the most depressing and lonely…
“Open on Thanksgiving!”
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 11/2013 T’was a few days before Christmas, some…
Boston Red Sox prove we are BOSTON STRONG with World Series win at Fenway
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 11/2013 “This is for you, Boston. You guys…
Celebrating the remarkable clergy of Saint Mary’s Foxboro
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 5/2013 Each year around this time, I’ve made…
A Christmas prayer for the victims of Sandy Hook
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 12/2012 All I want to write this week…
Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band / Wrecking Ball Tour / Izod Center, Meadowlands, NJ / Wednesday, April 4, 2012
By Robert Gillis, 4/2012 The eponymous track of Bruce Springsteen’s new CD, “Wrecking Ball,” was written a few years back…
Congratulations to George Takei and Brad Altman, married 9/14/2008!
by Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 10/2008 I met George Takei in 1990 [read here] and…
Breaking Dog Park News!
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 7/2008 Background: Here in Foxboro, a battle has raged — literally raged…
Unruly Boston sports fans are a disgrace
By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 6/2008 Boston sports fans: What the hell is the matter…
Lynda Walsh for Foxboro Selectman
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 4/2007 For many years, one of my personal, unwritten rules for this…
Remembering “Superman” star George Reeves, an all too human hero
by Robert Gillis Originally published in The Foxboro Reporter 6/1999 and revised for the Boston City Paper 11/2006 The recent…