A friend of mine has recently brought her mother in to live with her because her mother’s Alzheimer’s has stepped up the pace of its attack. Her mother is highly functional and has very clear moments, but at the same time, the basic inner dynamic is that she doesn’t initiate action. She’ll eat, but not…

Well, finally. A victory for the 8th grade girls’ basketball team – their second, I believe, in four years of playing together. And Katie even made a very nice swish from almost the three-point line that prompted a torrent of wild applause from the …er..crowd. I’m not one for overdoing young people’s sports, but neither…

From Jody Bottum in the Weekly Standard. His point? The Catholic hierarchy may be politically ineffective, but Catholicsm is contributing much to legal and political discourse: So why all the agitation? The 2004 presidential election saw endless talk about the malignant effect of the Catholic hierarchy’s preaching against abortion: editorials in the New York Times,…

Here’s another one:  Catholic Outsider from Alejandro Bermudez, editor of Catholic News Agency. It’s a young little blog, but it’s pretty interesting, with a couple of recent posts on Benedict’s style of interacting, including a primer on who gets to meet with the Pope these days. Answer: hardly anyone. (Michael met up with an old…

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