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A reader writes: I thought you might find it intersting that the BBC’s flagship intellectual radio program ("In Our Time"), which each week features a set of academics discussing some sort of idea/thought/thing, is this week spotlighting Relativism. Now when I saw that, the first thing I thought was — how interesting considering Pope Benedict’s…

India’s first permanent deacons to be ordained

Struggling, but spirited: The Catholic Church in Chad, which just celebrated its first National Eucharistic Congress, is needy but joyful, says Cardinal Francis Arinze. The cardinal prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments offered that assessment after having presided over the congress as the Pope’s envoy. He spoke with Vatican Radio on…

Take a crash course in Gregorian chant in West Virginia! Go to a chant workshop in Alabama! All this and more at the Musica Sacra weblog!

My daughter came home, annoyed that she’d had ten points taken off on a paper because, as the teacher put it, "It doesn’t all read in your own voice." AKA – a bit too much paraphrasing of sources going on here. She looked at me. "You don’t think I’m going to fight this do you?"…

What do you think of the Diocese of Oakland getting into the mortuary business????

Because it’s the time I have to start reporting on the risible and ridiculous spectacle of one of the Dumbest Plays Ever Written, one which I call the VMonologues, (and which I have seen most of, on HBO) being performed all over the nation (around February 14) in front of audiences of privileged, independent young…

The San Fran Chronicle is getting quite diverse in its opinion pieces these days – perhaps it always was, but I just didn’t know it. Earlier this week, the piece slamming arrogant scientist, and yesterday, this one wondering if those who predict same-sex marriage will lead to legalized polygamy might be right after all.. (playing…

We’ve blogged several times before here about the Cristo Rey high schools, a unique and, by all accounts, very successful education model that, among other things, successfully merges academics and work experience. I had thought it was an exclusively Jesuit mission, but it’s not – the first Cristo Rey school was, indeed, Jesuit, but not…

Nothing like stopping at your corner convenience store to get some gas, and seeing…your bishop! Dang, if I’d been two minutes earlier, I could exchanged witticisms in the Burger Dairy with the Bishop. But that’s okay – Katie popped out to meet her friends, who were walking up to the store as well on  their…
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