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A Seattle Times piece on the financial disaster of the Spokane Diocese Milwaukee prepares: The Archdiocese of Milwaukee is going ahead with plans to sell the Cousins Center in St. Francis and has launched a major communications effort, partly to prepare its 700,000 Catholics for what might be "staggering financial consequences" as 10 lawsuits filed…

Over at the Commonweal Blog, Peter Nixon posts on Robert Kaiser’s latest effort, and evokes a record (at this point) 77 comments – including from Kaiser himself.

Nice for Thomas Nelson: The two-day conference starts Friday, but Andjeski paid her $65 long ago — benefiting from a group discount. She quickly added that she could "hardly wait to laugh and cry, sing and pray" with the 11,000 or so women the company expects at its "Contagious Joy" traveling variety show Friday and…

Charlotte Allen in the LAtimes – looks at recent Episcopalian and Presbyterian actions, as well as the numbers. When a church doesn’t take itself seriously, neither do its members. It is hard to believe that as recently as 1960, members of mainline churches — Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans and the like — accounted for 40%…

Peter Steinfels, in last Saturday’s NYTimes, on a book arguing that secularism has marginalized the university: A century ago, American universities aspired to be the wellsprings of political, social and cultural leadership, Mr. Sommerville, a professor emeritus, argues in "The Decline of the Secular University," a slim volume published by Oxford in May and excerpted…

The Vatican website’s finally been updated with texts from Valencia. They must have been busy today.

Matt Abbott prints two essays from two different perspectives on the utility of graphic abortion photos in protests. One is by Fr. Michael Orsi of Ave Maria School of Law and the other is from Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life.

More photos of the Pope’s last day in Spain. The Pope’s homily at the closing Mass: Certainly we come from our parents and we are their children, but we also come from God who has created us in his image and called us to be his children. Consequently, at the origin of every human being…

No, no, don’t think you’ve got to change your bookmarks. I’m sticking with the blog, but I think I’ll stop posting photos on the Typepad photo albums. – Flickr is easier to use, plus you can do cool stuff with associated utilities, like make albums and posters. I put together an album of our Rome…

Here’s something I’ve been chewing on all week. Last Sunday, we attended a Mass in which the music was provided by a youth group, God bless them. Except they were not so great. Please take drum kits out of churches. It just doesn’t work. Especially when the drummer is twelve. The greying leader of the…
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