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Perhaps a new season of episcopal appointments? Today, the US gets one – an adjutant for Winona: Bishop John Quinn, auxiliary in Detroit (bio – pdf file.)

I was drifting through someone else’s blogroll and saw the “After Abortion” blog  listed– one I thought had ceased regular posting a while back. Well, Emily and Anne still post occasionally. On the current front page they have a long, long, helpful and important post on resources for parents of children with Down Syndrome –…

Everyone was there…

The Pope spoke this morning to the Synod. From John Allen: Truth to be told, the relationship between Biblical interpretation and other areas of Catholic theology had already emerged as a major concern. This morning, however, Pope Benedict himself took the unusual – indeed, quite possibly unprecedented – step of explicitly recommending that the bishops…

Last week, my daughter (finally) finished a short, star-crossed run as the Mother Superior in a production of Lilies of the Field, the main fruit of which being Little Michael running around the house yelling, “Ja, Schmidt!” many times a day. Anyway, a tale and a question. In one scene, the nuns (five in all)…

Today, in Rome: Tens of thousands of pilgrims from the four corners of the world crowded St. Peter’s Square for the canonization of an Italian, a Swiss sister, an Indian sister, and an Ecuadorian laywoman. They are Gaetano Errico (1791-1860), a priest and the founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and…

Books for sale here – just a reminder. I have almost everything on hand except Here. Now. and Prove It: Church. I have lots and lots of Mary and the Christian Life. Remember shipping is included in the listed price.

Over the past week: *As we leave the Hoover Library, a teen-aged girl in hijab whizzes by us on her Heelys to a waiting car. *The Indian women who live one building over get out of their minivan, clad not in their usual Western garb, but today in gorgeous, bright, saris, one red one blue,…

From the Pope’s remarks yesterday at the Synod.  Worth savoring. But first. The question has been asked, “Why a Synod on the Word of God?”  Because one of the most damaging tendencies of the last few decades in Catholic catechesis and preaching has been the way in which Church leaders, preachers and teachers have approached Scripture…

Michael, on Respect Life Sunday.
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