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An interesting piece on Jindal’s conversion from Hinduism to Catholicism. Blogger Gashwin Gomes made the same journey, and comments on the article – particularly on what it left out about issues of class and caste.

When Pope Benedict issued his Motu Proprio last July, some were excited and saw it as the possible beginning of a new New Springtime, and others sniffed and sneered as is their wont about nostalgia and fringe groups, clucking all the while that this really wasn’t that important because such a small minority would go…

A couple of random book notes: The Banquet:Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe  was a book I plucked from the “New Arrivals” shelf. Of course.  I gave it a quick read last week, and enjoyed it on a variety of different levels. First, it’s interesting and thought-provoking to consider what people in…

The Sistine Chapel is, of course, a chapel. Larger than many parish churches, but tiny compared to St. Peter’s. It is named after Pope Sixtus VI, in whose honor it was built in the 15th century. Its function has always been closely related to Papal business – gatherings of the Papal Chapel or meetings of…
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