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A NYTimes article on a new exhibit at the Museum of Biblical Art: I am trying to figure out how the writer reads art and is able to distinguish between expressions of faith and aesthetic concerns. It seems that he doesn’t like the obvious Christian iconography in a work, but then if it’s subtle, it’s…

Joseph did start preschool today. All day, no less. Nothing like having a mother throw you into the deep end for your first swimming lesson. I haven’t blogged about it yet because…I wanted to wait until the day was done. Which it will be in about 45 minutes, so I can go to the school…

Professor Bainbridge on the Moment: It’s time for us conservatives to face facts. George W. Bush has pissed away the conservative moment by pursuing a war of choice via policies that border on the criminally incompetent. We control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and (more-or-less) the judiciary for one of the…

Note to the rich people whose yard abuts ours: Your housepainters are playing stickball in your backyard. We’ll say it’s lunchtime and let it go at that.

The Pope had realistic, hopeful words for the German bishops: This means being a Church open to the future, and therefore one full of promise for coming generations. Young people, in fact, are not looking for a Church which panders to youth but one which is truly young in spirit; a Church completely open to…

This fellow wants us to start thinking about it! I’m game. My daughter is already speaking wistfully about maybe going…well, three years is long enough to plan, and sure…why not? What might be interesting is starting conversations with the Vatican Press Office about credentialing bloggers unassociated with the mainstream press – a WYD Blogger’s Row.

Brandon Evans has some final thoughts from Paris – his group had to leave the Papal Mass during the homily in order to make their flights Tim Drake reflects on the Pope: The most critical comment I heard, from the hundreds of young people I talked to, was that they didn’t know him. The vast…

In the UK, screening embryos for the eye cancer gene

Go to this NYtimes article on WYD, not as much for the article as for the slide show, linked on the first page. Interesting portraits of youth who attended and their stated reasons..

Good news: Baby Michael learned to scream (happily) at the top of his lungs today. Very nice. Good job. Bad news: He learned how to do it during the finale of Six Feet Under. Good news: Everyone goes to school tomorrow. Bad news: I’m a nervous wreck about Joseph going, and the start of school…
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