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My grandparents emigrated to this country from Austria-Hungary (what became Czechoslovakia) in the early years of the 20th century, settling in a tiny coal mining town outside Scranton, where my grandfather spent much of his long and difficult life underground, mining. (He named his youngest daughter Anne, the patroness of coal miners.) I never forget…

Hot on the heels of this news in the Diocese of Brooklyn last week, the New York Times has taken a longer view of what’s happening in Catholic schools around the country: It is a familiar drill in nearly all of the nation’s Roman Catholic school systems: a new alarm every few years over falling…

Steven Waldman over at Beliefnet has compiled a pretty interesting archive of all known inaugural prayers through history. Did you know the practice didn’t begin until 1937?? Take a look and see what you think. Evidently, the presidential pray-ers never heard the old saying “Be brief, be brilliant, and be gone.”

This chump thinks he knows.
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