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I’ve no new quirky children’s books to blog about, although I will say that our latest library thing has been checking out books from the science and animal sections – picture books that illustrate where milk comes from, what whales are like, and so on. Joseph really likes those. But I do want to say…

For years, now, we’ve been inundated with the latest incarnations of re-inventing Jesus from popular and scholarly sources alike. At First Things, Anthony Sacramone offers a handy summary: Jesus was a woman. • Jesus was a space alien and is buried in Japan. • Jesus survived the crucifixion and is buried in Kashmir. • Jesus…

A Vatican Radio intro – about 7 minutes. Also at Vatican Radio, An interview with art historian Elizabeth Lev on the presence of the Magi in art. – About 14 minutes long. A 2-minute report on the situation in Somalia, mostly an interview with the Apostolic Administator of Mogadishu.

CNS story on the number of U.S. bishops at or reaching retirement age: Up to 26 U.S. bishops, including five cardinals, could retire because of age this year. There are 14 still-active U.S. bishops, including three cardinals, who have already turned 75. Twelve more, including two cardinals, will celebrate their 75th birthday in 2007. At…

You might or might not know that January 1 was not always the feast of Mary the Mother of God/World Day of Peace on the RC calendar. In fact, that ‘s a quite recent development. Up to the revision of the calendar, 1/1 was celebrated as the Circumcision of the Lord. Which it still is…

NRO calls a few Catholic thinkers to see what their views of the execution of Saddam are. More reflection at MIrror of Justice

Mike Aquilina has links related to Basil of Caesarea and Gregory Nazianzen, whom we remember today. Including one of the podcasts Mike has done for KVSS in Omaha

A long-time reader is heading to Japan to visit her son for a week. She’s looking for suggestions on must-sees and any other advice. Here are the particulars: He is at school in Hikone, on Lake Biwa. In the Shiga prefecture, I think. We’ve been told to head to Nagasaki for the weekend, since there…

Cluny: In Search of God’s Lost Empire is a harder call. It wasn’t wretched, and had plenty of good information, but its omissions and the author’s take on medieval religion make it worth a library checkout, but probably not much more. Cluny is, of course, about the famed monastery of Cluny, established in the 10th…

The first one’s easy – because Shawn Tribe already reviewed it over at TLM – the marvelous, instructive, revelatory book by Eamon Duffy, Marking the Hours. Duffy is the historian whose The Stripping of the Altars has provided such an invaluable corrective to the mainstream view of the English Reformation as the answer to the 16th…
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