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From R.R. Reno, at the First Things blog, musing on how some seemingly assimilated Muslims can turn against the society in which they live: Moreover, the linkage of supposedly idealistic protest with violence and aggression is also very much a part our modern Western political aesthetic. The French Revolution sanctified mob violence and ritualized public…

Two journeys across the street to the park today, once with the little boys, Joseph trudging along because he declares it’s easier to walk than to ride his bike (and at the pace he pedals that thing – he’s right. I don’t think we’ll ever get him going fast enough to balance without the training…

…with German TV. Here’s the transcript. On young people: Young people are very generous but when they face the risk of a life-long commitment, be it marriage or a priestly vocation, they are afraid. The world is moving dramatically: nowadays I can continually do whatever I want with my life with all its unpredictable future…

A translation of an analysis in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, written by Vittorio Messori, a well-known (and sometimes controversial) Italian journalist best known to us perhaps as the interviewer/co-author of The Ratzinger Report. Messori is adressing a profile of Bertone that the paper had published, noting that it only contained two direct quotes…

Because we continue to read about tourism in Italy, with the hope of returning sooner rather than later, today, from the NYTimes: "Hit and run" tourism in the tiny town of San Gimignano. “Some people, jokingly, say that we have to get out of the ‘Bermuda Triangle,’ a reference to the hordes of tourists in…

Here’s a lovely story by the Detroit Free Press’ David Crumm (who is one of the best religion reporters out there – he find stories – instead of echoing trend pieces) on a gentleman who’s made it his mission to promote devotion to St. Martin de Porres: A 400-year-old saint who had a gift for…

…no not the theology department or campus ministry…athletics. Get Religion has a post on a series in the South Bend paper that has a lot of people talking…and some not. I’m talking about a religion ghost in the ongoing saga between the Notre Dame traditionalists who believe the school is losing its soul as it…

Great column in the UK Telegraph by Damien Thompson, editor of the Catholic Herald. Via Gashwin His point? There is great potential for revitalization of Catholic life in England, but the bishops are holding it back: There are about half a million more Roman Catholics in this country than there were five years ago, and…

Blogger Will Duquette sends this along: Apparently my review of Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling left Mapletree7 of the blog A Book A Day at a loss for words. I had said the following: I was also interested in Stirling’s choice of Wiccans as his protagonists. Juniper Mackenzie is kind, intelligent, and clearly sincere…

Rod Dreher in the DMN: Flannery O’Connor, who died 42 years ago this month, was an astute observer of the kind of progressive-minded Southerner who had been educated out of his prejudices, but who in truth traded one form of self-righteousness for a more insidious one. In two of her greatest stories, "Everything That Rises…
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