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Our "What Did YOu Hear" thread is crackling down there, and I’m so pleased. I think one of the things I’m going to try to do over the next month is to gather all of those threads from the past year and have one page up with links to all of them. It will be…

The Pope’s Angleus message: After celebrating the Solemnity of the Birth of Christ yesterday, let us remember the birth in heaven of St Stephen, the first martyr. “Yesterday, the Lord was born on earth so that Stephen may be born in heaven.” Following the Ambrosian liturgy, such words are pronounced when breaking the bread and…

…more sad news. Joseph’s teacher just called to say that the other pre-school teacher, the young woman who taught, I believe, the half-day children in the classroom next door, was killed in a car accident yesterday. Pray for her family – and all of those who have lost loved ones this season (Fr. Stanley wrote,…

…In which Catholics and other friends from around the world share their church-going experiences this past weekend. Let’s break 100 comments on this one! Standard format is to name general geographical location, at least, and if you really want, the name of the particular church. Our focus is on homily and music, but of course,…

Sigh…too fast, they grow…too fast. In a week, he’s gone from just babbling 100% of the time, to interjecting his babbling with clear a "No!"

Well, Merry Christmas everyone, and to my laptop, which has chosen today to sort of die. Research has uncovered the problem, which is not uncommon for this model, but which will also require being sent in to Toshiba, which may take a week, or may take a month. I have MIchael’s laptop, but as usual,…

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human…

from Terry Teachout to us…in today’s WSJ: A similar venture for which I have nothing but admiration is the recently launched Loyola Classics series of reprints of long-unavailable novels by Roman Catholic authors… MORE Terry’s blog Loyola Classics page!

From a long-time reader, a Protestant pastor: …it isn’t the Christmas season if i don’t do a funeral, and there is a bittersweet power to the reaction of families to hearing (since i usually use a calendar stroll like you used in the piece) that their grief is not alien to the season, but an…

Good stuff often wonder how many people who hear the famous Bible text that begins "In the sixth month" are aware of what is going on (Luke 1:26). It does not refer to the month of June, or for that matter to Elul, the Hebrew sixth month of the year. The reference is gynecological: the…
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