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…when something really interesting and bloggable that is surprisingly and instantaneously sucking up the world’s available Blogxygen happens, the temptation is strong to well, blog on it. But then, about 6 hours into this…thing..it becomes clear that this might just take a while. That something’s been unleashed and it’s going to be one of those…

…a novel highly recommended to me by a reader. I’ll be heading to the library/bookstore (whichever is closer) tomorrow on my rounds to pick it up: The End by Salvatore Scibona The reader says:  I have just read a phenomenal book entitled The End by Salvatore Scibona.  The first 50 or so pages I thought…

Please go read – and bookmark – this blog that is detailing the horrors being inflicted upon the Christians of Orissa, India. This post contains a recent listing of damage and destruction.

The Pelosi business has occupied much of Catholic blogdom the past few days and is finally making its way into some mainstream media coverage, here and there. What I want to do in this post is just offer some links to good blog posts elsewhere that are dealing with the theological questions. Fr. Zuehlsdorf, a…

It was thirty years ago in August and September that we experienced that period of three popes – Paul VI died on August 6,  Albino Luciani was elected Pope, taking the name of John Paul I on August 26, then died on September 29. A second conclave was called and Karol Wojtyla was elected on…

From today’s Office of Readings, in turn from, of course the Confessions: Because the day when she was to leave this life was drawing near – a day known to you, though we were ignorant of it – she and I happened to be alone, through (as I believe) the mysterious workings of your will. We stood…

Brendan Daly, Nancy Pelosi’s spokesman issued a statement: “The Speaker is the mother of five children and seven grandchildren and fully appreciates the sanctity of family. She was raised in a devout Catholic family who often disagreed with her pro-choice views. “After she was elected to Congress, and the choice issue became more public as…

Does anyone out there use or know much about netbooks? (Small laptops basically just used for Internet use. Under $400 and falling, apprently. I presume it could do some word processing – well, there’s always Google Docs for that, anyway.)? I need a new laptop – my old one has been kaput for over a…

I’m a little late in posting this, but Chris Cash of the Catholic Company tells me that they’ve not met their goal yet, so there’s still a need. From the Catholic Company website: The Catholic Company has undertaken a challenge, together with the Missionaries of the Poor (MOP), to send 5000 (or more!) catechisms to…

…Barnes, that is, who declared in the WSJ that one of the reasons Kansas Governor Sebelius was probably unacceptable as an Obama VP was because she was…pro-life. Even the three Democrats Mr. Obama considered but didn’t pick — Sen. Evan Bayh and Govs. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas — would have…
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