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Let’s get back in the blogging mode by doing a little reporting.   (BTW, I’m swamped. Not with writing work – that will probably start happening next week. But with physical labor related to homeownership. Bleh. But some stuff just has to be done….Put it off long enough!) The first Sunday we were gone, we…

Truth is, we were out of town this past week, a fact which I’m reluctant to broadcast to the world while the journey is in progress. And no, it wasn’t to Rome. That was these guys, God bless ’em. Our voyage was domestic, taking in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and points in between. And I return…

…things are busy. Look for regular (after a fashion) blogging to recommence on Sunday. Or around there. Maybe.

Speaking of Faith, the faith/religion program from American Public Radio, hosted by Krista Tippet, is seeking your views on Catholicism: Pope Benedict XVI will be making his first papal visit to the U.S. in April, to help revitalize and strengthen the U.S. church. He will be stopping in Washington D.C. and New York City to…

Peter Steinfels’ two cents about looming papal coverage: Is the pope Catholic? That used to be a sarcastic way of saying, could anything be more obvious? Is fire hot? Is water wet? Now, however, that nothing in the world is obvious, when Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the United States on April 15 there will…

Like anything else the institutionally-sponsored Catholic press has its limitations, but it has strengths, as well. One of the areas in which the Catholic press shows its value and even necessity is in the telling of stories of individual Catholics – their vocation journeys, their struggles, their pilgrimages and their transformations. Around this time, diocesan…

First, from Fr. Philip Powell OP’s blog: He took a group of UD students to Athens, GA, to help at the Oasis Católico Santa Rafaela . and lets us know that the Sisters need some assistance: I want to plug the sisters’ work at the Oasis in Athens, GA. The sisters there serve a large…

If you want to know what the Pope might say while he’s in the US, Rocco says, you might take a look at what Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone has said in his appearances, particularly to the Knights of Columbus last summer. This article by Fr. Gerald O’Collins, S.J. in America is quite nice – linking…

I hope that somewhere out there, some historian or sociologist (or both) is keeping an eye on the travails of the diocese of Belleville, IL. Which, in some form or another, have been going on for a good long while. It would be a fascinating and revealing case study of the dynamics and tensions within…

I won’t have a chance to listen to it right now, but I point you to this week’s In Our Time, centered on Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries.  Available for download for the next week, still accessible on the Web, just not for download, after that. When he was an old man, Michael Sherbrook…
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