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Let me tell you how our room is laid out. There’s the main bedrom, and then a little room adjacent. That’s Michael’s study. (Mine is in a room downstairs.) Yesterday, I was up there, putting clothes away. Had the baby with me, was letting him wander around. Of course, he went immediately for the study,…

Yesterday, we were on our way to an audition – Katie for a local theater production of The Jungle Book. Joseph brightens. "I know what that’s about!" he says, "It’s about Tarzan when he was a little boy!" Well…..sort of. Many points for effort.

CNN hires Delia Gallagher as "Faith and Values" Correspondent. Good call – she will be interesting to watch. Won’t they be pleased?

The view from Louisiana: Over thirty years ago, the novelist Walker Percy (another Louisianan by adoption) began his novel Love in the Ruins with a question that conveys the apocalyptic mood that suffuses this part of the world: Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted…

Sir Ian McKellan keeps a sporadic (three entries long) journal of his time filming DVC…

Kaspar says he thinks the Pope will go: A top Vatican official said he expects Pope Benedict to travel to Istanbul, Turkey, in late November for a meeting with Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Cardinal Walter Kasper, who coordinates ecumenical dialogue at the Vatican, said Patriarch Bartholomew had issued the invitation the day after…

We all know (or we should, anyway) about the precarious state of the shrinking Christian presence in the Holy Land. Today, Sandro Magister reports on what the representative of the Franciscan Custodians of the Holy Land have to say these days "What do you mean by difficulties between Israel and the Vatican? We Christians in…

Last night, I was reading our worn copy of Peter Rabbit to Joseph, a copy that had been mine as a child, which makes it practically an antique. What struck me, though, was not my own age, but rather the fact that twenty years ago, I was probably doing the same thing: reading Peter Rabbit…

More on the issue in this week’s NCR. The article offers a quick survey of the different approaches dioceses are taking in regard to bankruptcy, assets and ownership issues. It’s very confusing. [the issue, not the article.] But the bottom line? The church, said Gerdano, “hasn’t been consistent and they haven’t been diligent about observing…

…have responded to the survey by our Catholic researcher. Keep going…. A Catholic researcher is doing a study and invites you to participate: A Catholic researcher is doing a study and would very much appreciate a few minutes of your time to help out: You are invited to participate in an online study examining Catholic…
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