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Georgette is the reader who passed on the Wiki post earlier: go check out her blog! The rambling thoughts on culture, the Church, and life within this galaxy, as seen through the eyes of a Catholic mom, wife and architect, married to a foreign-born architect, living abroad. I am an American Catholic Cajun living in…

A man named Joe Gill is in the midst of a 40-day water fast. Why? There is a forty day day fast on water only underway now, this Lent, at Notre Dame University, as a response to the university’s blatant and repeated refusal to conform to Pope John Paul the Great’s constitution "On Catholic Universities."…

There’s a new issue of this fine journal online. Many good stories, poems and essays, including this one on the "Moral and Legal Obligations of Catholic Judges"

…at what a single blue M& M can do to a baby’s face. And hands. And chest. It actually made me wonder…all that in one tiny candy? What power does it have on our insides if it only takes one to paint a baby blue?

…kill the children you created. It is not lost on Mr. Davis how the passion of the Christian right in its effort to abolish abortion and curtail access to birth control now mirrors the efforts of clergy members 40 years ago to do the opposite. "They’re a religious tradition, too, and they are moved by…

Bishop Murphy of Rockville Center, in Newsday One of the great losses in our country has been the diminishing number of "intermediate institutions," including church agencies and others in our communities. The government, especially the federal government, has tended to become the all-powerful determinant of all aspects of social life, thus marginalizing legitimate intermediate institutions.…

Check out this book edited by Erika Bachiochi, and published by Encounter Books We are now more than thirty years away from the Supreme Court case of Roe vs Wade, yet the controversy over abortion has not diminished. Although the "pro-choice" forces increasingly acknowledge the central claim of the "pro-life" side–that abortion is a morally…

She’s had a very busy week, and has fantastic photos – read this post as an intro, then go back to the main page and enjoy: It was a week in which, as one of our house members said, "I was proud to be Catholic" and "so happy for the gift of faith"! This past…

on The Da Vinci Code…from Godspy.

From a reader: Yes, it does exist! It is called WikiKto. And the author stresses the capital K in the name because it is Catholic. (Um, I think something got lost in the English translation.) And I think this could be a really wonderful and worthy St Blog’s Parish Joint Project! A real service to…
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