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Just a few minutes ago, in the car on the way to school, I remarked that today was the feast of St. Bartholomew (Nathaneal in John’s Gospel) , and I reminded Katie of the series of statues of the apostles in St. John Lateran – with each of them holding, as they always do, some…

A couple of weeks ago Dom tagged me with the "One Book Meme" …so here goes. It will probably be lame. One book that changed your life: The Early Church by Henry Chadwick. It was the primary text in the first quarter (yes, UT was on the  quarter system, not semester, back then) of "History…

….deleting all the papers from my hard drive that #1 son has sent me for proofreading over the past couple of years. Gone! Very nice. Although now, the years-long Chris-in-college anxiety is being replaced by the possibility of Chris-kicking-so-much-editing-booty-in-Atlanta-after-just-three-weeks-that-he’s-thinking-LA-already super-sized anxiety. ….finding the colored glass/twisty wire earrings I bought from a street crafter/vendor in Campo…

How wonderful it would be… (Wall coat hooks. I think it’s art, not merchandise. Nope, I just figured it out. Yes, it’s merchandise.)

Mike Aquilina has a post about recent discoveries: Back in July, I posted on the traditions of St. Thomas the Apostle’s work in India, suggesting a strong case for their plausibility, given the state of Roman trade with India in the mid-first century. Recent archeological excavations confirm what we read in the ancient geographers and…

What about the Hallstatt Charnel house?

The Scandal of Silence: Diane Pawlowski in NCR(eporter) – on what has been seen and what has been kept secret. When Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George met in January with 200 parishioners from St. Agatha Parish about his assignment there of a known priest sexual predator, the overseer of an afterschool program at the parish said…

"The Queen of Tulsa" is a GREAT title for a novel…

Sr. Helen Prejean uninvited to Diocese of Duluth for signing an anti-Bush ad in the NYTimes: The problem wasn’t the political nature of the issues raised in the ad, Eller said, noting that the church and Prejean often take stands on political issues. But the ad’s partisan attack of Bush crossed the line, Eller said.…

During his Wednesday General Audiences, Benedict has been examining the apostles, offering his usual brief, lucid catechesis. Today, in considering John, he turns to the Book of Revelation. The AsiaNews report: The pope said that contrary to usual interpretation, the Apocalypse was not about an “overhanging catastrophe” or “enigmas to be resolved”. Rather it told…
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