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Funniest: For my parents, the back seat didn’t exist on long road trips no matter how loud it got. Grossest: (Sandra Miesel, of course!) As far as boiling down bodies for shipment home, this was done with Thomas Aquinas. It took a long time to process his body because he was corpulent.

Beliefnet is running a debate/discussion between two of our friends, Peter Nixon (former independent blogger and now part of the dotCommonweal team blog) and Grant Gallicho (associate editor of Commonweal) Definitions take center stage at first, and I’m thinking this will absorb much of the debate. Peter starts off: But today we’re often talking about…

Gerald of Closed Cafeteria is posting his grandfather’s photos here and here.

Presses EU about embryonic research: Germany pressed its EU partners to ban European funding for embryonic stem-cell research, a day after President George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would have expanded such work in the United States. "The European Union science programme should not be used to give financial incentives to kill embryos," German…

Elizabeth Lev, in her regular ZENIT column, says the assumption is innacurate: At my own church of the Protomartyrs, the 10 a.m. Sunday Mass is standing room only and the other five Masses throughout the day are well attended. The draw isn’t the music, nor the coffee and doughnuts; it is the untiring efforts of…

The Newman Center at ASU planning an expansion: A 700-square-foot adoration chapel would be built near a courtyard creating an intimate prayer space, and there will be a student center for all campus ministry-related programs. Lucci said the decision to build came after realizing that there are almost as many Catholic students at ASU as…

If you have a tween or young teen daughter (or son, for all I know), you’ve probably heard of it. It’s a Disney film – made-for-tv, now on DVD – that has busted all kinds of charts. This Newsweek article explores why: Six months after its premiere, "High School Musical" rolls on, a singing and…

We all have our philosophies about entertaining children in the car. Mine is: Low Expectations. Not mine. Theirs. You see, I think if that you embark on a trip having informed the children that we must take lots of stuff so we will be entertained and not bored, and first we’ll do this, and then…

Perhaps you’ve been following the story of Father Fay, the Connecticut priest accused of misappropriating funds, acts suspected and investigated by the parish associate pastor and secretary, claiming the diocese would do nothing. Blogged here and then, last week, here. Well, a slightly new twist from the NYtimes today, which says that friends of Fay’s…

A brief, yet rich essay in the WSJ today, on a family’s battles with doctors: complained about all the death-with-dignity pressure to my father’s doctor, an Orthodox Jew, who said that his religion forbids the termination of care but that he would be perfectly willing to "look the other way" if we wanted my father…
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