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Bringing solar power to the Vatican. A giant rooftop garden of solar panels will be built next year on top of the Paul VI audience hall, creating enough electricity to heat, cool and light the entire building year-round. "Solar energy will provide all the energy (the building) needs," said the mastermind behind the environmentally friendly…

A couple of items sent my way. As you know, World Youth Day is coming up next summer in Sydney. A couple of weeks ago, the event’s official hymn was announced: The theme song for World Youth Day 2008 was written by singer/songwriter Guy Sebastian, the winner of the first Australian Idol contest in 2003.…

Down in Deerfield Beach: Creating a cookie for a saint is not as far-fetched as it may seem. For baker Joseph Teresi and his customer Giacomo Piraino, it was a happy convergence of cuisine and faith. It is significant that they met on St. Joseph’s Day, March 19. Piraino dropped into Teresi’s bakery, Joseph’s Italian…

From today’s WSJ, a Catholic school getting the job done: High graduation rates are a constant at most Catholic schools, but St. Joseph’s is unique even within the parochial system: It is the only area Catholic school that has an "open enrollment policy," accepting "any child regardless of faith, academic ability or emotional stability." This…

Starting with this fascinating post by Ted Olson over at CT – on a recent encounter with Jehovah’s Witnesses: A couple of weeks ago, I answered a knock at the door and found two eager young evangelists. I was watching my young son at the time, and was unable to invite them in, but I…

Again, forgive me for not being able to blog about much except pop culture these days, but that’s just the way it is. So. WHO’S IN THE COFFIN? I didn’t start watching Lost until a few episodes into the first season when, I believe, Sandra Miesel’s kudos convinced me to look into it. The appeal…

Christianity Today presents its list – good stuff, including Dwelling Places, the novel by Vinita Hampton Wright, my frequent editor at Loyola. Speaking of books, Jesus of Nazareth has now sold 1.5 million copies. It’s #20 at Amazon, and if you have plenty of Advil handy, you might venture into the discussion boards there and…

The kidnapped Chaldean priest was freed. Cracking down in China: Word came down from the central government in Beijing that it was time to strengthen enforcement of China‘s one-child policy. In response, people here said, birth control bureaucrats showed up in a half-dozen towns with sledgehammers and threatened to knock holes in the homes of…

The Pope brings out his summertime cappello romano, or the saturno. Fr. Z. reports there were 50,000 present at the General Audience today. Teresa translates the message, which recapped the Brazil trip: My trip was, above all, an act of praise to God for the ‘wonders’ he has worked among the peoples of Latin America,…

I am a lame blogger nowadays because I’m finishing a book. A task that was made so much more pleasant today when I, who had been laboring under the impression that I was to produce 40,000 words, actually, you know, looked at the contract and saw that my memory had tricked me by 10,000 –…
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