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Here in Fort Wayne, a little girl has been missing since Thursday. She apparently never got on the bus, never got to school, and to make things worse, the school never notified the family of her unexcused absence. (Attendance policies differ in schools, but usually, if a family member has not called the office to…

Jennifer Ambrose rethinks the whole Harry Potter-Satan thing Fr. Rob has his homily from yesterday posted As does Fr. Martin Fox

Joseph Bottum reflects So, Clean Gene is gone, slipping away at age eighty-nine. The death of Senator Eugene McCarthy on Saturday has already touched the newspapers and Sunday morning political-talk shows with the usual obituary moment—the obligatory hiccup of reflection in which everyone old enough to remember pauses for a moment to realize that we…

Every time these church-closing people open their mouths, they sound more and more adrift: As quoted at Rich Leonardi’s blog: ‘Count us in on the groups of churches who believe time with families is better spent on Christmas Day,’ said Vickie Neff, the church’s director of communications. Why? Because of the "cast of thousands" it…

My, isn’t it nice of Harper’s Magazine to mark December with not one, but two articles about Christians losing their faith. I’ll just take on the cover piece: "Jesus Without the Miracles" by Erik Reece, writer and son of a Baptist preacher. The conceit is to compare Thomas Jefferson’s Life and Morals of Jesus of…

Just some wrap-up thoughts on the megachurch closings, until the next round of stories. As someone pointed out in the comments, this is an excellent conversation for all of us of whatever Christian stripe, to be having. It prompts us to look at the purpose of worship and liturgy, the relationship between church and the…

Terry Teachout, who’s hospitalized For the repose of the soul of Mark Shea’s father-in-law For Dom and Melanie Bettenelli, expecting their first child For Peter Chattaway, his wife and their unborn twins, the latter three of whom are presently hospitalized

Yesterday, the Third Sunday of Advent? Interesting that we had no rose-colored vestments at our liturgy. The music was unmemorable, and the homily was along the lines of what Michael decided is best defined as "the red herring homily,"  – that is, setting up a situation which really has little to do with anything, unless…

Today at the Cathedral Bookstore on Calhoun, Michael and I will be signing books. It’s part of the Open House for the new Diocesan office building – a 7-story structure that the diocese purchased for the purpose of putting all of its offices under one roof (and in a facility a little newer than the…

A Telegraph article on the woman who, as a girl, was the inspiration for the character of Lucy in LWW: Jack and Minto, as he called Mrs Moore, had lived together in Oxford since 1920. There were no children in the house until they started taking in evacuees at the start of the war. Lewis…
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