The short answer is, Yes, finally. The somewhat longer answer, as I detail in this cover story for America magazine, “A Literate Church: The State of Catholic Bible Study Today,” is “Yes–but they’re not doing it enough.” Check it out, let me know of any Bible study stories you have–successful, or not. No better season…

Google has captured the future. Now it is taking over the past. But that’s not such a bad thing, when it provides new features like this “Ancient Rome 3D” marvel, which, as the NYTimes story shows, has re-created the Rome of Constantine’s era and allows the viewer to fly through its buildings and peruse its…

I haven’t posted for much of the past week, thanks to various plagues running through the house (Toddler=Petri Dish) and a family visit to New Orleans. I was hoping to post from there, but family visits being what they are… It was encouraging to see the French Quarter and the trendy neighborhoods doing weel–apparently. Lots…

Updating yesterday’s Beatles post…A letter to the editor in today’s NYT, clarifying that while the Osservatore Romano was trying to be generous, they still didn’t quite ” get” what Lennon was saying: November 25, 2008 You Can Make It O.K. To the Editor: “Church Forgives John Lennon ‘Boast’ ” (news article, Nov. 23), on the…

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