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…my (lame) theory of everything. This is a post on which I have been ruminating for a while, hoping to work out something substantial and formidable, but since I doubt that will ever actually happen, and since I’ve got one at home today (Joseph – the Catholic schools had a teacher in-service scheduled for today…

Here’s a moving piece by Sean Gallagher on a young man with plans, interrupted: In the spring of 2005, David Ballintyn was a new graduate of the University of Notre Dame. But unlike many young graduates who strike out into the marketplace with ambitious career plans, Ballintyn decided to give of himself to God by…

Had what I thought was a decent talk last night down in Richmond, IN – a Catholic community which seems to have weathered the priest shortages quite well. The three Catholic parishes in town still exist, but share resources and two priests. Schools still exist, too, having been restructured, and, as I posted yesterday, a…

…to get your copy of the Power of the Cross before Lent begins.

A reader reminds me: You may be interested to know that the feast day of St Claude de la Colombiere (quel bel nom!), Jesuit and anti-Jansenist, is celebrated today.  At mass the priest in my Jesuit parish pointed out a side altar that has statues of Sts Claude and Margaret Mary Alacoque below one of…

…from Charlie’s Coffee Bar in Richmond, IN…yay free WiFi. I’ve just pulled together my talk for tonight, and have a bit to relax before I get taken to dinner with my very generous host. I spoke at Seton High School, which surprised me by having a lot more 7th and 8th graders than I expected.…

Roman Catholicism is growing by leaps and bounds in England – mostly because of Eastern European immigration. The question is, will the traditionally reticent English institutional church be up to the challenge of nurturing the vigorous faith, a faith given even deeper resonance by the urgency and need of the immigrant experience? The Catholic Church…

This time at First Things. Helpful because it takes it on from another angle from our previous primer- the three basic currents running through Anglicanism (evangelicalism, liberalism, catholicity) , historically, and how they are clashing at the moment. Just a little bit.

…as I like to say these days.. I will be out of pocket most of the day on Thursday (weather permitting  – we’ll see in the AM) , so comments will be closed off until Friday. BTW – if you want to head to Richmond – do!

Crisis magazine has published a study of the "health" of dioceses in the United States, based on three factors: the "morale" of the presbyterate, the number and rate of vocations; and the effectiveness of evangelization (measured by RCIA rates and numbers). The study is linked on the front page of the site and is a…
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