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Magister has a preview Zadok’s got it – promises more later. Due on May 15 here in the US

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…

(Computer issues on the laptop, which holds the – gulp – book. I’m confident I can resolve it later today. In the meantime, a bit of blogging. And a trip to the store to get a long-overdue USB flash drive, full of repentence for my negligence.) Tomorrow (4/16) is Pope Benedict’s 80th birthday and the…

…but you’ll want to read Fr. Z’s reflections on the Pope’s book on Jesus, to be released Monday in Italian and other editions. The Doubleday U.S. edition will be released in May: One of the engines driving Pope Ratzinger’s book was his reading a work 15 years ago by a rabbi, Jakob Neusner, A Rabbi…

(And things are going fairly well. Living Faith done on time, another chapter of Prove It You gone through, but it looks to be a work-heavy weekend. Once Michael gets back from this conference tomorrow.) To bring you…this: Because I’m still obsessed with Italy and because I still read travel boards daily, I came upon…

Heidi Hess Saxton reports that Tony Benkovic, husband of Catholic writer and speaker Johnette Benkovic, passed away last night. Memorial website here. Included is a link to the episode of Johnette’s EWTN program in which she and Anthony speak of their journey of faith – "Carrying the Cross Together" – filmed, I believe, around a…

Barring anything interesting coming from Rome or someplace else, I’m going to take a blog break ’til…let’s see…Monday. I am on the brink of finishing up writing Prove It: You (which is about morality) and I have Living Faith devotions due on Friday. I think I might be able to wrap all that stuff up…
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