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An old (1992), very good profile of writer Brian Moore from the LATimes (reprinted in the LAWeekly, so there’s no registration required. Go read and enjoy).

Florida man nominated to be ambassador to the Vatican

Tomorrow’s gospel reading is the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes, Matthean-style. Let us know if you hear about the Miracle of Sharing – it’s always fun to read how many of you actually do. If by "fun" you mean "depressing" and "maddening," of course. (To clarify: It’s not that we decry a layered…

I read this transcription of the Pope’s words to priests of the diocese of Aosta from last week. Then I read Fr. McBrien’s latest column. The total effect of reading the pope’s informal remarks: a man engaged with the world, who knows the issues, who grabs onto the crux of the issue at hand, who…

…that some day, I’d be on the phone with my oldest son, having a discussion about Silence, by Shusaku Endo, which he had read out of his own free will… I would have laughed and laughed and laughed. Not that he isn’t smart – he is. Very.  Not that he’s never been a reader –…

This week, All Things Considered ran an rather interesting series on the theme of the individual in China. I actually only listened to two – the first, on Jack Ma, the founder of this buyer-manufacturer liason website/service and this story on a Protestant evangelist in China. What was quite odd about the latter story was…

Valerie Schmalz, interviewing Bob Casey.

Michael thinks you should play the piano for the kids at WYD. Awesome! (Seriously)

I’ve done a lot of public speaking (not counting the 1,345,043 hours in the classroom), done television, both live and taped. But today, I met the TelePrompter. Interesting. Headed over to this place to do that thing today. Very nice people, simple set up. Script I wrote was on the teleprompter. I hadn’t even given…

Go check out the Happy Catholic’s review of a novel she’s reading – sounds like a keeper I’m only halfway through so this is just a partial commentary about Valley of the Bones by Michael Gruber. I had to share it though because it is hands-down one of the most interesting books I have read…
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