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I can’t believe it, but I’m the same age as Barbie. Needless to say, she’s holding up a lot better than I am. To mark this milestone — hers, not mine — there’s an exhibit now underway in Baltimore. And it’s giving people an opportunity to assess the moral and social impact of this shapely…

… the more they stay the same. Why does this feel like Groundhog Day? (Which remains, to my way of thinking, one of the smartest and subtlest and sweetest conversion stories ever captured on film.)

Well, who’d a thunk? McNamara’s Blog has this fascinating tidbit about the leader of the confederacy, who loved nuns and reputedly wore a Miraculous Medal: When he was a child, future Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended Catholic school for a short while, the College of St. Thomas near Springfield, Kentucky. (In those days, “college” was…

We’ve known for a long time that men and women often seem to be from different planets. Now, it turns out, that idea may also apply to how we sin: Women are prouder than men, but men are more lustful, according to a Vatican report which states that the two sexes sin differently. A Catholic…
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