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Everyone has their own way of killing time on the Internet. Mine is related to that ‘satiable curiosity. It’s absurd. I don’t do games or timewasters and while I’ve done my share of watching laughing babies on YouTube, I don’t find multimedia such a temptation. What gets me is just..well..have a look. A typical blog-post-writing…

Well, a Wednesday morning, actually Earlier this week , I took the little boys to the Birmingham Museum of Art. I’d been once before, to check out the special Leonardo exhibit that was housed there this past fall (a dozen and a half or so drawings only, but very interesting and well-presented. They handed you…

I have a book due day before yesterday, and no that’s not hyperbole. It actually was due day before yesterday.  But my editor has graciously accepted my lameness and we’ve established 1/15 as my new goal. After which I have another book due 3/1 – which will be a lot easier to write than this…

Another Creek instrument.

Deer toes. Traditional Creek percussive instrument. Interactive Creek Nation exhibit, Birmingham Museum of Art.

A couple of things: From my old acquaintance Kevin in Toledo – who was always so helpful sending along great links! – comes another which looks fascinating: Found full text online of vol. 1 of memoirs of Sarah Peter, a prominent American convert in mid-1800s.  Her letters during her first trip to Rome (around pg.…

Portland Bishop Malone has threatened a sexual-abuse activist with the interdict: The leader of Maine’s Roman Catholics has taken the unusual step of threatening to punish an outspoken advocate for people who were sexually abused by priests, possibly by denying him communion. Paul Kendrick of Freeport has been banned from the Cathedral of the Immaculate…

Emilie Lemmons was a 40-year old mother of two young boys, and a long-time writer for the Catholic Spirit, the archdiocesan paper for Minneapolis-St. Paul. A year and a half ago, she was diagnosed with cancer, fought it, wrote about it, and died Christmas Eve. Here is her last column for the Spirit, published at…

The third and last segment of Laurie Goodstein’s excellent NYTimes series on foreign-born priests in the US, focusing on India – and questions about what’s going on – from the supply end. Bishop Pazhayattil said he chose which priests to send abroad very carefully. Some who volunteer, he said, could easily go astray so far…

The second part of the NYTimes series of the foreign-born RC priest in the USA: Father Oneko, 46, had never counseled parishioners like those he found here at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church. Many are active-duty or retired military families coping with debt, racial prejudice, multiple deployments to war zones and post-traumatic stress disorder.…
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