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(This post will be sticky for the rest of the day…new posts below.) In his new (and first!) novel, Danny Gospel, David Athey has penned an evocative tale of a suffering pilgrim, a young man with a particular and in ways peculiar life, but one in which it is easy to find echoes of our…

First, forgive me for being a slacker in not updating my “saint” widget over there this week – so many worthy remembrances! The Ugandan martyrs, Augustine of Canterbury, Boniface..I’m so ashamed. Well, anyway. My mother grew up in Maine. Born in New Hampshire, but grew up in Maine.  The aunt and uncle who raised her…

…came the taunt when I walked into the living room after my run/walk.   Well, Katie had a right to because Katie had been watching this on TCM this afternoon. (She sometimes asks me if there’s something “wrong” with her emotions being moved by what she sees onscreen. No, I tell her, it’s the opposite –…

   

   

The most recent issue of the New Yorker has various stuff to ponder: Buckminster Fuller was an extraordinary whack job Anthony Lane’s review of Sex and the City is fabulous. What other word could I choose but that? It’s vintage Lane – sharp and observant and hilarious – and spot on. The gals at Jezebel…

David Athey is the author of Danny Gospel. First, here’s his bio: Midwesterner by birth, now teaches English and oversees the literary journal at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Athey has published poems, reviews, and short stories in numerous journals, including The Iowa Review, Oxford Magazine, and Harvard Review, and holds an MFA from Hamline University.…

Msgr. Lisante has apologized… Yesterday, Lisante said he had been endorsing McCain, adding his only mistake was the moment he chose to do it. “In hindsight I would have separated out the invocation, the prayer, from my commentary,” said Lisante, pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Church. But he added he saw nothing wrong with…

Today at the General Audience, Pope Benedict continued speaking on Pope Gregory the Great: From AsiaNews (full text will be posted when available) Illustrating his works, Benedict XVI emphasised his attitude of intellectual humility, “an essential rule” for those who want to penetrate the Scripture, but which “does not mean an absence of serious studies”. …

Update:  Mark Stricherz at Get Religion wishes journalists would do a little digging into the “why now?” question from the Archdiocese’s perspective.   From the Archdiocese: To put recent events in some perspective, I have asked Father Michael Pfleger, Pastor of St. Sabina’s Parish, to step back from his obligations there and take leave for…
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