A reader, trying to be helpful, suggested I join twitter. It would be a great way for people to keep up with your blog, he said. Okay. I did. But now whenever I visit my blog — or, very often, when others visit — a little box drops down and demands a twitter name and…

Ah, memories … A former colleague from my days at CBS has penned this little reminiscence of life at the Eye Web. A snip: What had been the finest broadcast news organization has devolved into what employess there describe as the most disorganized and least motivated place to work in any of the network news…

As Catholic Schools Week draws to a close, I was delighted to find this piece in the Catholic Standard about my alma mater, St. Vincent Pallotti High School, in bucolic Laurel, Maryland. The school has changed a lot in the 32 years (!!) since I graduated, but I was pleased to see a few familiar…

The pope offered a few words recently to a group of Catholic journalists, and they’re worth reading and pondering: Benedict XVI has sent a message to participants in the national congress of the Italian Catholic Press Union (UCSI). The congress, held last week, commemorated the institution’s fiftieth anniversary. “Half a century after the foundation of…

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