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I really wonder what people like this think they are communicating? you must be very proud that the liberal rag actually published your yokel opinion from that sophisicated seat of philosophy, fert wine, indiany. i grew up near there. my home town is a terribly sophisticated place called roanoke. it is home to the wowo…

Y’all should be reading it. For tidbits like: After all of the hype about how embryonic stem cell research holds much greater hope for cures than adult stem cell research, after all of the complaining that the field is being held back by funding limitations, here comes New Jersey accepting stem cell research grant applications.…

In the N.T. Wright thread below, someone question my call on not calling Wright’s academic works "dense." (And he does, as the reader points out, have quite a few works for the popular audience. His "…..for Everyone" (fill in name of Gospel) books are excellent beginning Scripture study). Let me explain. It’s not  that I’m…

Manuel Miranda on the administration, pro-lifers, and the Supreme Court nominations: Preparing for the Supreme Court fight, pro-lifers were told by White House surrogates to stay out of the light and out of the newspapers, to be quiet so as not to scare the horses. Even before Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement this…

I did have a line in that NYTimes piece about good priests doing valiant ministry. But it’s one of the several lines that got cut. Just so you don’t think I’m all negative or anything. Not that anyone would ever get that idea from this blog. I also had a brief screed about homilies, saying…

A lovely story of conversion, vividly expressing how quickly things can turn and the marvelous variety of people, places and things that prompt the journey.

This is described as a new electric car which the Pope will use to travel within the Vatican. Me, I call it a golf cart, version PapaRatzi, 1.0

Miracle tears are the wrong sex Padre Pio was a miracle-working hermit who died in 1968 and was canonised three years ago. Last May his statue at Marsicovetere, in Basilicata, was reported to have wept tears of blood. However the local Curia said yesterday that “supernatural intervention” could be excluded because tests had shown the…

Frequent readers of this blog know that one of my interests is education of all kinds – I may have only taught in Catholic schools, but I’m a product mostly of public schools, as is my husband, and I’m interested in how public schools cope, given the fact that their coping plans usually, for good…

A new book: John Paul II made no secret of his interest in the political upheavals and religious controversies in his native Poland. But a book of his private correspondence about to be published in Poland demonstrates an astonishing attention to detail—and an acute sensitivity to anything he saw as a departure from church teachings.…
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