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I’m going to do that thing again – that thing of encouraging you Latin-Rite Catholics out there to dip your toe into the Eastern Catholic waters. Not as a tourist, not as an observer at a zoo, but as a Catholic with other Catholics, worshipping God in ancient rites. Yes, it is confusing – even…

Snapshots: Melkite Catholic parish…one-tenth full at the beginning of the Liturgy…practically full by the end. An experience so much like other Eastern Catholic liturgies, yet a bit different. We begin and then we…go.  For an hour we stand, bow, chant…Lord Have Mercy  too many times to count. We cross ourselves, we follow processions around the…

I really need one more day….school started today but because I was so uptight about that and everyone’s emotional health which I can’t help taking on as some sort of never-ending project (I know, I know. Can’t help it), plus my second son’s upcoming at least year-long-journey to Rome then Vietnam (he’s embarking on the…

Because of our own busy-ness, I’ve not really been up on what the Pope’s activities since WYD. I knew he was on vacation in Bressanone in Northern Italy, but today was the first time I’d had to peruse the Papa Ratzinger Forum and catch up. Today,  the Pope met with priests and seminarians (the text of…

Our days these days are filled with tasks – doctors’ appointments (immunization forms, check-ups and so on), school registration and, well, the swimming pool. So it all balances out pretty well. In fact, the swimming pool time more than balances things out considering the writing material I glean from practically every visit. But time stops…

Copyright is an issue that interests me a great deal, not because of my own writing, but because of my work as the editor of Loyola Classics. One of the most important parts of that job was to track down copyright claims, a perversely fascinating, convoluted task, especially once you get European heirs and publishing…

Please. Don’t. (With apologies to Father Malachy’s Miracle, one of the Lost Loyola Classics. As in, at the last minute the heirs pulled out of the contract. Grrr. But in the novel,  written decades before Vatican II, there’s some hilarious stuff about a liturgically innovative priest in the book’s setting – Scotland – who insists…

…only better! ..and Catholic! You might recall that a few weeks ago, in a post inviting you to go read Jennifer Fulwiler’s excellent article “A Sexual Revolution,” I also recommended an older Commonweal piece by Heather King called “One Woman’s Journey.”  It ended up being a recommendation to myself, to pick up a book I’d been meaning…

In print? Not to worry. This is not another post from a frustrated book-writer, trying to suss out the market. Although you never know. That might be on the way, too. No, this post has germinating for a while, ever since I read Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” in The Atlantic Monthly …

So, yeah, we made it to the first ever Irish festival in Knoxville – it was okay, but let’s hope future years expands the Irish-related vendors and booths. There just wasn’t a lot to it. Which is too bad, considering the history of the Irish in the area, briefly outlined here – something that speaks…
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