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A bit ‘o buzz on this one – is Ave Maria School of Law considering a move to Fort Wayne? Apparently University of St. Francis theology head Dr. Dominic Aquila (who previously worked at Ave Maria College) is in conversations to that effect. Interesting. USF (which I have a hard time referring to that way…

The question is…did our schools have a two-hour delay today because it’s really cold or because the administrators decided it would be nice to sleep late after a night of celebration in Colts Nation? Hmmm. (Of course, Archbishop Buechlein was ahead of the curve on this one, announcing last week that Archdiocesan schools would be…

New documents on preborn life and the natural law. From Sandro Magister: But the second new document, the one on natural law, will be the very first of its kind. On a number of occasions Benedict XVI has indicated as the foundation of shared existence among all men the moral principles inscribed upon the heart…

In the recent minor kerfuffle over Bishop Gumbleton withdrawing from a speaking engagment in Tucson (the story is that the speech was sponsored by a local chapter of Call to Action, and Bishop Kicanas refused the group permission to meet and host the speech in a Catholic church. The implication of articles on this is…

Things get violence during a death-penalty discussion. In a class on the virtuous life. When the discussion turned to the death penalty, a male student said he was for capital punishment because the public shouldn’t have to pay to keep convicted killers in prison. Walters said death penalty cases cost even more money, and the…

…abortion in fiction, read this David Foster Wallace story, "Good People" in the most recent issue of the New Yorker. Stream-of-consciousness, such is the case with Wallace, but don’t let it dissuade you, if you would be dissuaded by such a thing. It’s a powerful story. Almost…well, you read it. (I don’t think these stories…

When you’re driving down the road at midnight in minus-minus-freezing degree weather, driving to pick up your daughter from school (yes) where the bus full of debate team members, in from the State Meet in Fabulous Kokomo, will soon be landing, and it’s dark and frigid and you’re barely awake and all of a sudden…

The author of this article in AsiaNews sees small glimmers of hope in Trabzon, Turkey – the site of the murder of Italian priest Don Andreo Sanotoro on February 5, 2006 (as well as the hometown of the murderer of journalist Hrant Dink a few weeks ago): The Turkish Internal Affairs Minister, under pressure from…

Well, not really. But an article crying out to be written, and one that will be completely enjoyable to anyone with knowledge of the Sunshine State. The graphic tells the story: (click for a larger version) The story: IT takes a big state to absorb the entire North every winter, but once again, Florida is…

Thanks to those of you who passed on The lovely piece by Lawrence Downes in the NYTimes today on his travels to south Georgia: Andalusia was a working dairy farm run by Flannery’s mother, Regina, who as a prominent widow businesswoman was something of a novelty in town. No one has lived there since O’Connor…
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