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If you love “Peanuts” — and who doesn’t? — you’ll find this item from Wednesday’s Times especially fascinating: In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. “Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.”…

A posting by the Catholic News Service looks at that question — and finds some intriguing theories: Statistics leave no doubt that the number of women religious has dropped sharply over the last 50 years, but there is an ongoing debate over the reasons for the decline. The question surfaced recently when L’Osservatore Romano, the…

My new office. If I behave, they may give me a chair. Actually, this was taken in our still-under-construction office space back around Thanksgiving. Things have improved since then. I now have a floor. We move into our new studio facilities on Friday. Praise God.

The words of that old spiritual rang in my ears as I read this delightful item from Fr. James Martin about his newest “Friend” on Facebook. I’m still waiting for Him to ping me.
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