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 Problem:   The three dozen or so wooden train tracks you have aren’t satisfactory.  Solution:  You decide to construct your own. By drawing them. With crayon. On the hardwood floor. Problem solved! Some problems, solved, anyway.

…and for all those coming to Christ in His Church this evening!  From John Allen: One of the best-known Muslims in Italy, a journalist who in some ways is the heir to Oriana Fallaci as the country’s most prominent critic of Islamic radicalism, is to be baptized this evening by Pope Benedict XVI and received…

This will be a catch-all post, added to throughout the day… First, I’m going to pretty much insist that you go vist Jen Ambrose’s blog for her photos and videos of the Holy Week services she’s attended in China. It’s so moving – especially the brief video of a congregation singing Stabat Mater, but in…

There have been several notable deaths over the past few days – film director Anthony Minghella, actor Paul Scofield, Focolare founder Chiara Lubich  – (here is the Pope’s message read at her funeral – and here is an account of Cardinal Bertone’s homily at her funeral). Today, it was reported that novelist Jon Hassler died…

Update:  Here is the English text of the Via Crucis.   As you know, one of the traditional Roman Holy Week observances is the Stations of the Cross at the Coliseum. Every year, the Station meditations are authored by a different writer – in 2005, famously, Cardinal Ratzinger wrote the meditations. This year’s Stations have…

This week, prayers seem especially fitting for…  ….those suffering around the world. Suffering under political repression, in war zones, in situations of seemingly untenable, insoluble conflict. Suffering from hunger, abandonment, illness, grief, loneliness and doubt. (In terms of illness, in particular…for Michael’s father, Albert, for Don Lindsay, for a friend’s sister’s baby, for another friend…

Don’t take my blog silence as an indication of a really deep Holy Week spiritual statement.  Life simply goes on here, and it’s very busy this week, since we’ve decided to take the bull by the horns – this particular bull being some nagging house issues that need to be taken care of, and now…

Here’s a fantastic post from Terry Mattingly at Get Religion, in anticipation of you-know-what: You see, journalists who cover religion are all waiting for the arrival of the tidal wave that is a papal visit, which is kind of the Olympic games of the Godbeat, or, better yet, our version of a national political convention.…

There will be lots to observe and listen to in the Holy Week liturgies in Rome, liturgically and otherwise (much comment already about the papal cross – up to this point Benedict has used John Paul II’s papal cross, but this morning, another was used.), and as we wait for Teresa Benedetta or the Vatican to give…

The NCR(egister) blog on the visit…Tim Drake is keeeping it constantly updated with several good posts a day. No one else is even approaching what Tim’s doing. Bookmark it. Today, details on the Pope’s visit to the site of the World Trade Center attacks, his arrival and departure in the US, an account of a…
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