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Time in a California monastery The monastery, once the personal vineyard of California Gov. (and university founder) Leland Stanford, covers more than 580 acres. In keeping with the Cistercian belief that a simple, earthly life is one of spiritual abundance, the abbey is a working farm. Most of it is covered with trees, allowing guests…

Pilla testifies in sex abuse lawsuit The most absurd, but telling sentence in the article: Mulica, who left the priesthood in 1991, now works as a motivational speaker and insurance agent in California. He works under the pseudonym Fredrick James.

On Roberts from NRLC The Supreme Court Nomination blog As pointed out in a comment, much,much good blogging at Southern Appeal, including links to a couple of very reasonable responses from bloggers on the left.

Edith says she’s out. Okay. Who? Mary Ann Glendon? Hah. We wish.

Difficulties in the wake of Dennis, from the "Rosary Army" website (motto: "Make Them. Pray Them. Give Them Away.) We knew that the hurricane had caused a great deal of damage, and currently, Catholic Relief Services and Caritas are both collecting funds for the clean-up in the Caribbean. Unfortunately, the dictator Fidel Castro has once…

From a reader: On the recent Osteen posts, and indeed whenever the topic of evangelical  megachurches comes up, there seems to be a tendency to compare their apparent (numerical) success with Catholicism’s apparent failure.  As I am currently reading Ratzinger’s God is Near Us, this brought to mind his concluding thought from the homily "God’s…

Here are a couple of passages from emails I’ve received just today. You see good news and interesting journeys everywhere, if you just look. I converted to Catholicism last December, nearly 5 years after my initial RCIA process.  I have not been disappointed..  I  have so much to learn.  I will always have so much…

The news is spreading, thanks to misleading news reports, on the ordination of 9 women scheduled for next Monday in the middle of the St. Lawrence River. Let us not turn this thread into a debate on women’s ordination (unless you would like to address the issue of if the original group was really, as…

A good, meaty James Bowman piece from the New Atlantis that begins with a new production of Whose LIfe is it Anyway? in London, starring Kim Cattrall (of Sex in the City)  and moves in all sorts of interesting directions. American popular culture in general and Hollywood in particular is naturally libertarian in its sympathies,…

In the "Internet Monk" thread below, Todd of Catholic Sensibility commented that all of this talk of what people want in liturgy is nice, but who’s going to to do the work? Where are the resources going to come from? My initial, instinctive response is that it doesn’t cost a dime to pray the liturgy…
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