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I have a little bit of a break on the project I’m working on – I did 6 of the units, now they need to regroup and tell me any specifics they want in the other 6, which will take a few days. Phew. I needed that mental space…

…there is a problem with the Typepad system. It’s not recording comment counts on the posts at this moment (it’s about 9:45). So don’t be fooled (as I was) – there are, indeed, several comments on some of my new posts. I was wondering about that myself..

Today is the feast of St. Dominic, founder, of course, of the Dominicans. Share your Dominican appreciation here! (I appreciate Dominicans as much as anyone – it seems to me that they have weathered the post-Vatican II storms with less damage than some other orders. But I have to say that when I think of…

The ritual discovery of the Vatican Observatory in Arizona: The people taking the tour–members of a local church group for which Corbally acts as the spiritual leader–listened transfixed as he explained the history of the Vatican Observatory. The church, he said, in the late 1500s ordered Jesuit scientists to reform the Julian calendar, which was…

A Chicago Tribune story on Rob Spaulding, the Mundelein seminarian who, driving drunk last year, crashed in an incident that resulted in the deaths of two of his passengers, also seminarians: Spaulding told Magette of the last time he saw her son, who was still alive but badly hurt. He died hours later. "That was…

Rocco picks up on the unexpected resignation of the Bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica – who is only 59 and had gone to Jamaica in 2004, after serving as an auxiliary in Baltimore for 6 years.

Archbishop Dolan on one of the Pittsburgh 12: Dolan wrote to parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Waukesha that it was his duty to notify the Vatican of Vandenberg’s action. Dolan said her excommunication could come soon. The Roman Catholic Church prohibits women from becoming priests. Vandenberg, 64, said Monday that she was "startled"…

Steven Riddle on the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki – he quotes a passage from Michihiko Hachiya’s Hiroshima Diary. Another voice to explore is Takashi Nagai, another physician, Catholic convert, who had just been diagnosed with leukemia a few weeks before the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing his wife. He lived for six more…

Christopher Johnson’s ingenious solution to passages like this, found in a recent newspaper article: The irony is, Catholicism was part of the Episcopal Church before a split in the 1500s.

Going to clean out my mailbox and share some recent wanderings with you. Some of it you’ve probably read on other blogs, but let me just get this done, okay? Blogs you’ve called to my attention: Evangelical Catholicism is a blog that might interest you Rann at This, That and the Other Things, reviews books,…
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