…don’t read this book. Well, go ahead, but be ready, in the last third, for lots of sinews, blood and guts, as former New Yorker fiction editor Bill Buford heads to Tuscany to apprentice with the Dante-quoting, raw-meat loving butcher of the subtitle, Dario Cecchini. And before that, whether you’re carnivore, herbivore or omnivore, be…

From Lapped Catholic: My wife and I were talking about the upcoming Feast of the Assumption on August 15th and she mentioned that when her family spent their summers "down the shore" that on the Feast of the Assumption everyone made sure that they went into the water. She said they had to carry her…

The Cleveland Diocese sponsored a music event – and 20,000 folks showed up! Play it with Christian artists like the rockers Sanctus Real and five-time Grammy winner Steven Curtis Chapman, and Catholic youth – not always accustomed to hearing their generation’s music in parishes – will come by the multitudes. An estimated 20,000 people –…

We do this occasionally, simply because I’ve got twenty years of book-reading to children under my belt, with no sign of stopping in the near future, thank God. And we just returned from the library. First, a helpful hint, of which most of you are probably already aware: If you’re like me, you have very…

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