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Just weeks after Santa Barbara ordained an astonishing 60 deacons, now a splinter group has decided that’s not quite good enough: it’s “ordained” a batch of women as deacons, and one as a priest. The details are sketchy, which is what makes the whole exercise so bizarre: Sunday’s ordination, witnessed by more than 100 invited…

Evidently, a few scribes bent over their desks in Rome have finally heard about computers, virtual worlds, and the Internet. They’ve dipped their quills into ink and are offering their opinion in an influential Jesuit magazine: Digital worlds where viewers can interact with each other and create vast social networks carry several risks, but they…

Radio has changed since the days when Fulton Sheen (on the left, in the 1930’s) began broadcasting. In the mid-1980s, I worked for CBS News Radio, as a writer and editor, rubbing elbows with legends like Charles Osgood and Douglas Edwards. It was good, old-fashioned radio news, complete with screaming editors, frenzied anchors, and reel-to-reel…

My grandparents were immigrants from Slovakia, and brought with them a custom from the Old World of naming each child for the feast day on which they were born. But one of my aunts was born in early July and named Anne — weeks before the feast of St. Anne (today, July 26th). I never…
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