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Weekends around here are usually pretty quiet. Let’s liven things up a bit. Let’s blog Karl Keating’s e-letter on the upcoming debate between Robert Sungenis and Gerry Matatics on the validity of the Novus Ordo. Shall we? Does the Novus Ordo Mass Fulfill Our Sunday Obligation?" That is the topic of an upcoming debate between…

The thread below, commenting on Frederica Matthewes-Green’s WSJ piece, was exceptionally informative and polite. Thanks! For more of the same on the same topic go to Al Kimel’s blog, and be sure to stop and check out his post on his first RC Confession experience as well.

From The New Yorker, an article about the Met’s acquisition of this painting It’s their most expensive acquisition ever – 50 million dollars, a Duccio. Apparently the piece is highly regarded because of its place as a sign of transition: “It’s part of the whole revolution in expression that takes place in the late thirteenth…

I see that one of our occasional, and always solid commentors (and a nice person – I met him when I spoke at Loyola College in Baltimore last yer) has a new book out from Brazos Press (one of the more interesting publishers out there, IMHO): Holy Teaching: Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas…

I’m gone for like an hour to the libraray, I come back, and my email box is filled with missives sending me this story. A Christian adoption agency that receives money from Choose Life license plate fees said it does not place children with Roman Catholic couples because their religion conflicts with the agency’s "Statement…

Joseph pulled out an instruction book for a Chicken Run computer game and proceeded to read his brother a story. The Wizard of Oz. Being as I was at the computer, I took down dictation: "There once was a girl named Dorothy. Her house blew away and she saw some little monks. And then the…

Re/Schoenstatt Movement: Here is a little background on the image, Mary Thrice Admirable, which the Schoenstatt movement adopted.  My grandmother (I believe her family was from somewhere in Bavaria) gave a copy of this image with elaborate frame to Ursuline Academy in Louisville, Ky.  A sister who had been a friend of the family and…

I’m getting scattered complainst about the difficulty of commenting. All I can say is that I Have Done Nothing. I haven’t banned anyone in weeks, haven’t changed anything. Typepad "upgraded" last weekend, and perhaps there are glitches related to that. I know it is trying to be quite aggressive regarding comment spam, and perhaps frequent…

This being Joseph Ratzinger, "vacation" does not mean idleness or leisure in the traditional sense. Unlike John Paul II, Benedict is not a man given to long walks in the mountains as a form of meditative prayer. Instead, he has shipped several cases of books and papers to the nine-room, two-story chalet in Les Combes…

Missed this because we were on the road at the time, but last week, Jonathon Yardley had a nice re-assessment of The Habit of Being, the collected letters of Flannery O’Connor (not that his re-assessment was any different than his original view) This very large book (more than 600 pages) appeared in March 1979, a…
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