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Today, it’s the Loyola Kids’ Book of Saints: Over 40 saints’ lives,written at a middle-school reading level. I. Saints are People Who Love Children St. Nicholas,St. John Bosco, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla Saints Are People Who Love Their Families St. Monica,St. Cyril and St. Methodius, St. Therese of Lisieux,Blessed Frederic Ozanam,…

In which I clear out the book review file. Got to do it and move on. Which is too bad because there are books here to which I wanted to give extended attention, but that’s just not going to happen. So, onward: First, I suppose I’ll gather up the three-medical-related books. (Why these books? Well,…

I’m currently in a frenzy of cleaning and purging – I discovered that I saved EVERY SINGLE PAPER from Christopher’s kindergarten year, and most from first grade. Not surprisingly, the archives diminish precipitously after that. Anyway, some finds: 1) A book of More Solo Readings for Radio and Class Work, undoubtedly my mother’s dating from the…

..and other varia. Very nice piece about a Texas family making the journey: (The Times will be following the family this week. There’s a bit of video, too) The Pequeños and their fellow pilgrims are a particularly ardent band. They are followers of the Neocatechumenal Way, a communitarian church movement, founded in Spain in the…

(I’ll be beating this drum a lot for the next month. Bear with me.) The bookstore is open. I’ll be making a run to the post office early afternoon, so if you’d like an order to go out today, now’s the time to place it! First Communion, Mother’s Day, Confirmation, yada, yada….  

As Benedict’s visit gets closer, anticipatory commentary makes less and less sense. Take, for example, Stephen Prothero’s column in USA Today. (Prothero is chair of the Religion Department at BU. His column expresses a pretty thin understanding of Benedict, but I’ll just get to the end) The point is that young people don’t relate. That…

I was walking through the church parking lot this evening, and I thought, “Huh, Good Shepherd Sunday. Pope’s coming. St. Peter’s Church. Wonder if it’s going to come up?” Well, yes. I walked in, the bulletin was handed to me, with a big drawing of the Pope on the front, there was a picture of…

Okay, I’m going to try go gather as many useful links in this post as I can. It might take a while – I’ll be adding to during the course of the day. First, in terms of the visit itself, Marcel Lejeune, a member of the Catholic campus ministry team at Texas A & M…

After about a year, I’ve re-opened our bookstore, but only for the spring. (What with our usual summer travel, selling books is impossible then). I’d stopped because I had PayPal troubles – the account was hacked into the same time my Yahoo mail account was, and it was a mess. I finally just decided to…

  I finally finished the page listing my books for this blog – you can punch the appropriate tab above or click here. The bookstore will open some time on Friday. Once I remember how to do those PayPal buttons again.
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