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Rachel Balducci has tagged me and she swears it’s easy, so I’ll go ahead and do the meme, as a way of easing into my day.. Four Jobs I’ve Had 1. The "del" (that’s what they called it) at the Fountain City K-Mart in Knoxville. I usually worked 11 to 9, so it was my…

Mark Stricherz has a piece in this month’s Columbia about a K of C program to help soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan: It’s an interesting and balanced article – I did a little segment on one of the DVD’s produced by this program last year, BTW. Mark’s blog.

Long-haul Catholic news hounds will recall, a couple of years ago, the reopening of a decades-old murder case of a Toledo nun, whose body was discovered in a hospital chapel, mutilated and reportedly arranged in a way that gave reason to suspect Satanic-cult activity. The case came back into the spotlight when, in 2004, a…

Pete Vere with a nice reflection on why he does what he does – and the pain it requires him to confront.

Readers of Dom’s blog know that there’s been a bit of scuffling in the Boston Archdiocese, as former Archdiocesan spokesman, Fr. Chris Coyne, resigned as pastor of Our Lady Help of Christians parish in Newton, after 4 months. Coyne followed the very popular but, at least as I read him, quite tiresome Fr. Walter Cuenin,…

In all of the encyclical madness last week, we kept coming around the question of who’s this for? and the "Catholic scholars" don’t care…should we? and Aren’t encyclicals just for bishops anyhoo? Well, the most direct argument against the contention that this is all just a volley for the inner sanctum is the plain fact…

We wrote earlier in the week on issues of perinatal care and hospice. As it happens, Loyola Press published a personal memoir of this situation a couple of years ago: Waiting With Gabriel: A Story of Cherishing a Baby’s Brief Life by Amy Kuebelbeck, who reports that she is presently working on a new book…

…to the European Social Model. A talk given by Jennifer Roback Morse on January 21 for the Acton Institute Lecture Series Commemorating the 15th Anniversary of Centesimus Annus at the Pontifical North American College in Rome: So the European social model provides high wages and excellent benefits — for the few who have jobs. The…

…getting people to eat their dinner. Searching for recipes for tortilla soup, I find one with this brief synopsis of what lies ahead: Simple recipe using pork rinds, tomato sauce, and avocado. Say WHAT?

In NH, a proposed law: For the second time in three years, lawmakers have proposed a bill that would require religious leaders to report suspected cases of child abuse, even if they learn about that abuse in the privacy of a religious confession. The Diocese of Manchester opposes the bill, saying it would interfere with…
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