Miracle tears are the wrong sex Padre Pio was a miracle-working hermit who died in 1968 and was canonised three years ago. Last May his statue at Marsicovetere, in Basilicata, was reported to have wept tears of blood. However the local Curia said yesterday that “supernatural intervention” could be excluded because tests had shown the…

Frequent readers of this blog know that one of my interests is education of all kinds – I may have only taught in Catholic schools, but I’m a product mostly of public schools, as is my husband, and I’m interested in how public schools cope, given the fact that their coping plans usually, for good…

A new book: John Paul II made no secret of his interest in the political upheavals and religious controversies in his native Poland. But a book of his private correspondence about to be published in Poland demonstrates an astonishing attention to detail—and an acute sensitivity to anything he saw as a departure from church teachings.…

Our favorite Catholic teacher blogger, the Anonymous Teacher Person tried a Death Theologians’ Society kind of activity involving role-playing, which didn’t turned out as she’d hoped. Her entries reminded me of something I did in graduate school. It’s worth telling. I went to Vanderbilt Divinity School – well, actually, my degree, an MA, was not…

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