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The Coliseum is awesome. It’s iconic, and you already know what it looks like, but to come up out of the Metro station and stand there, right in front of it, traffic racing by, knowing that 1900 years ago, it was there…is a tiny exercise in time-travel. But amid all I learned and saw at…

Here’s the info on my talk tomorrow night. It’s in Ford Chapel. Children would be allowed because, well…one of mine will be there. Yup.

As you can see from the sidebar, I’m speaking in PA tomorrow – if you’re in the area, please come say hey. And although it’s odd to go on another trip so soon…I really have to say that a flight that leaves at 1:45 and arrives at 4…seems like a trip to Kroger’s compared to…

At the Catholic Report, David Hartline tells of the speaker selection process for a Catholic gathering…

Look. I’ve not seen the last two episodes of Lost. I guess I will watch it tonight. What do I need to know in order to not be…lost? (The last one I saw was the Sawyer-backstory ep, I think…where he ended up taking over the gun cache.)

A week or so ago, there was a kerfuffle about the title "Patriarch of the West" being dropped from the Pope’s titles in the latest official Vatican Title Directory or whatever. Some wondered if it was a slapdown of the Orthodox, which seems highly unlikely. Fr. Jim Tucker has, what seems to me, a more…

Aside from the cheese, there’s another purchase I regret not making. I saw it at The Gesu, the central Jesuit church in Rome. Now, the Gesu is a fascinating place artistically and historically, of course, and I knew some of what to expect there – St. Francis Xavier’s arm and so on. What I, in…

(You won’t believe this, but I still feel as if I’m just getting started on this reporting…) Week ago today, we attended the General Audience in St. Peter’s Square.  We had our tickets, retrieved Tuesday evening – an acquaintance arranged ours, but do know these are not hard to get. Santa Susanna, the Paulist-run American…

One of the big news items enflaming the Catholic blogosphere as well as the secular press in Orange County, CA, is the recent action of a pastor and Bishop Tod Brown telling a group of parishioners to leave their parish and diocese. For what? On the surface, for refusing to submit to the liturgical norm…

This trip gave Joseph the chance to write his first real joke. He would ask me, "Is it your birthday soon?" I would say, "No." His next question: "When is your birthday?" "July." Mischievous grin, "Gelato?" Followed by triumphant laughter. "Gelato? " Conan O’Brien, call your office.
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