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The Westminster Cathedral blog has an intriguing post on the how-to-speak-ecclesiastical-Latin battles of the 19th and 20th centuries, concluding: As Peter Jones notes in ‘The Intelligent person’s Guide to Classics’, the pronunciation of Latin arouses fierce passions. How true. I was requested one evening by a visiting and indignant choir to adopt a more ‘english’…

This past weekend was Katie’s high school production of Our Town, in which she was cast as Mrs. Webb (the mother of Emily, who marries George Gibbs, and who dies. Emily, that is.) As you know, the play is ideally performed with only the simplest sets (a trellis being the only representative object, with chairs…

Something to chew on: Peter Steinfels looks at three viewpoints on Catholicism and the definition of just war: George Weigel in First Things, a response editorial in Commonweal and an article in America. In his latest essay, Mr. Weigel grapples with the fact that those costs have become painfully evident, and the larger concerns of…

Got nothing done this weekend. I don’t know why ever imagine that I will. So I’m going to hold fast to no blogging til Tuesday (barring big news, of course)…but if you like.. You can wish the Pope a happy birthday, via the Vatican website and…pray for his intentions for the month of April: Call…
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