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*  At the playground, I happen upon two little girls. Maybe four or five years old. Burmese. One had the other in a headlock and had a fistful of hair that she was pulling as hard as she could. “Uh…stop, ” I said, “Don’t pull her hair…” because I could tell it was not a…

(AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito) From all over…. First at our local parish, which is St. Peter’s.  Opening and closing hymns were the hymn in honor of St. Peter – “O Sing the Great Apostle”  I think. Is that it?  Homily pulled from all the readings, pointing to the fact that this is not the past…

With Vespers at St.-Paul-Outside-the-Walls, the Year of St. Paul begins. There is nothing abstract about this. It is not about filling a gap in our religious education or ticking off “need-to-know” items off a checklist. It’s about Jesus Christ, and the world he came to redeem. A world which is no different from the world…

Jen at Et, Tu has an excellent article in America: “A Sexual Revolution”  about her journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic. Really quite good. Speaking of such journeys, I want to take you back many years to an article that was published in Commonweal in 1996 by Heather King – I clipped it at the…

No..not, the move, not the canonical conterversies, but something close to my heart here – Communication. For several years now, I have been increasingly impressed with the St. Louis Archdiocese’s use of modern tools for communication. Of course, the Archdiocesan paper, the St. Louis Review (once edited by now-KCMO Bishop Finn) has long set a…

St. Louis Catholics  – well, many of them – will be saddened to know that Archbishop Burke is leaving them. As rumored, he has been named Prefect of the  Supreme Tribunal of Apostolic Signatura. More from John Allen: The appointment puts Burke, who turns 60 on June 30, in line to become a cardinal. Burke…

I’m always interested in juxtapositions. In particular, when people act, make decisions and so on. Sometimes – perhaps much of the time – if we try to understand what someone is doing it helps to look at what else that person is doing. So look at two things Pope Benedict is doing these days. Or…

And, on the journey, I bestowed my “Most Tasteless Tourism Billboard” on one for Helen Keller’s birthplace. I don’t know if the billboard was erected by the site itself, by the Tuscumbia Chamber of Commerce or what have you. Are you ready? I doubt it. “See….what she couldn’t.” See…you weren’t ready, were you??!  Thanks to…

Might pop in tomorrow (Wednesday) night. Might not! Check out the often-updated de.lici.ous (or whatever) feed over on the right or just click here, for items I find interesting, helpful, or aggravating – or perhaps all three at once. Oh, but before I go  – today at a bookstore, I saw that Puffin has a…

Fr. John Kavanagh, S.J., who has written powerfully and consistently about the way of a Christian in the midst of a consumer culture, has a good piece in America about preaching, prompted by the Wright/Obama business. He essentially says – preachers who draw too much attention to themselves need to step back a bit. As…
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