You know those crafty-artsy-hipster-crunchy-parenting-homeschooling blogs where they’re always posting photos of the kids’ projects, which are always very cool, primitive yet winningly elegant in said simplicity, displayed against the background of the Mission furniture in their Craftsmen bungalows or their farmhouse and if they’re Catholic, Pius and Benedicta got it all done in between their Latin and Greek lessons? And…

No, 2.2 was not required. Off to graphics. We’ll just count this post as version 2.2. When I clicked on the text of Spe Salvi  Friday morning at 7am and glanced over it with echoes of Max and Ruby and early-morning complaints echoing in my ears and the pressure of a deadline looming with no babysitter…

Pope Benedict continues to school us in the Early Church Fathers, turning to St. Chromatius in today’s GA. From Teresa Benedetta at PRF. (As he always does, Benedict begins with concise and skillful scene-setting for the ministry of Chromatius: Arianism, threats of invation and so on. And then he turns to his life and work:)…

I think I’m about to go on a John Gardner kick. Never even read Grendel before (David did, in high school, and made a video based on it for a project…that’s as close as I got). But I picked up the new edition of Nickel Mountain on the “new arrivals” book at the library, read…

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