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From AsiaNews, stories of how Asian Christians are helping …in Burma In the Philippines Caritas Manila is shipping its first aid collected in Manila parishes via two Burmese priests on their way home. Fr David Kyaw Kyaw Lwin and Fr Philip Maka Naw Aung are students in the Philippines but as soon as tragedy struck…

I was thinking this at Mass on Saturday evening. I was thinking about how the celebrant at Mass, after he starts a prayer off – say the Credo or the Lord’s Prayer – shuts off his microphone, oh so subtley, so that he doesn’t overwhelm. He got us going – job done. Let’s pray together. Then…

Well, the Recital Relay was completed with great success. Joseph’s piano recital was at his school (it’s a wonderful thing – the school offers private piano lessons during the school day), which is less than a mile from our house in the south part of town. At 1:30. Katie’s piano recital was at IPFW in…

The Pope has spent this past weekend in Savona and Genoa. The program from the Vatican website is here. As well as the Italian texts of his words so far. He has visited two shrines, celebrated two Masses, met with the Cathedral Chapter, youth and visited a pediatric hospital. The Archdiocese of Genoa’s site has…

Katie and Joseph saw this yesterday. They both liked it. I confess to little interest – I read the books when I was twelve, and again to my older children ages ago (Joseph is just about ready to start on his own, perhaps), and the whole Lewis/Tolkein fictional opus has never had any pull on me.…

Got some work to do – that was actually due on Wednesday. Oops. One of my older sons is here visiting as well, plus all that end of the year stuff that parents of school-age children are so fond of. Two piano recitals in two different parts of town within an hour of each other…

Every day I have reported the story of the Sichuan earthquake it has seemed impossible to imagine things getting worse. Hanwang, with its bodies lying everywhere, was grotesque. Dujiangyan, where hundreds of teenagers were dragged out dead from the mud, was nightmarish. But every day is worse than the next. No one knows what horrors…

It seems every time I turn around – or sit down at the computer – Pope Benedict has come out with another interesting homily, address or somesuch. I’m going to try to look at what he’s been saying over the past couple of weeks, starting with what he’s had to say about life. (Most of…

A post in which I gather together a lot of stuff – recent reads, views, etc. * I’ve been pretty occupied over the past week trying to pull together a project. The project is really – and don’t deny it, Ann! – someone else’s baby, the work of a gifted person who has graciously invited…

Mary Campbell Gallagher sends along word at this great-looking exhibit opening Friday at the Museum of the City of New York: From an article in the NYSun: The exhibit runs until 12/31. Fordham University Press is publishing a companion book to the exhibit.   An exhibition opening next week at the Museum of the City of New…
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