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…bookblogging ahead. I have a short list of books I really, really need to blog on, so barring any unforeseen events, I’ll concentrate on that for the next day or so. Get that out of the way, clean out the email box and post the buckets o’links that people have so kindly passed my way…

A sign that your toddler lives with older siblings, including probably at least one adolescent: He starts answering every question, no matter what it is, with one word: "Nuffing."

Really interesting Sandro Magister article on a history of art in Italy and its author: The author of this revolutionary trilogy – the first to introduce forcefully the liturgy as a criterion for understanding Christian art – is an American living in Italy, Timothy Verdon. Verdon, 60, trained as an art historian at Yale University,…

From the Fides News Service, via Spero News, a list of Catholic missionaries who were killed in 2006: The Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of People and the FIDES news service published on December 30 its roster of missionaries who died violently while spreading the Gospel in 2006. According to the Congregation, 24 priests, professed…

The end of a old year and the beginning of a new is a time for prayer, a time for gratitude and hope. The Pope’s schedule during these days is a busy one. Yesterday, he prayed Vespers at St. Peter’s and afterwards blessed the crib of the really big Nativity in St. Peter’s Square: There…

Italians and their nativity scenes – something to behold, they say (she sighed) – here’s an interesting Slow Travel thread on what people are seeing around Italy these days and here’s a post from a wonderful blog by an American woman living in Rome on the tradition in general as well as on her Presepe-related…

I was just listening to our local Catholic radio station, and they were playing a most interesting discussion, obviously from England – about the Church and the press. I’ve figured out that it must be a feed from EWTN’s "Top of the Week" program, which seems to have variable content. But I’d really like to…

Last spring, the NYTimes Magazine ran an almost 8,000-word story on abortion in El Salvador. One of the central stories involved a woman who was supposedly jailed after obtaining an abortion at 18-weeks of pregnancy. Problem was, that wasn’t the situation at all. She was jailed after being tried and convicted for murdering her full-term…

Former Dutch Capuchin monastery now an Orthodox complex: The Russian Orthodox Church has begun work to make a former Capuchin monastery and church in the Netherlands the largest Orthodox complex outside Russia. Russia’s Interfax news agency reported Dec. 18 the complex would include schoolrooms, a bookstore, and a library for East Europeans belonging to Amsterdam’s…

An LA Times story about a current exhibit: For 94 members of St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church in Irvine, the freeway drive north to Brentwood in morning traffic was the equivalent of a pilgrimage. They recently traveled in two buses to the Getty Museum and its current exhibition of ancient icons and spiritual artifacts from…
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