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From the NYTimes Travel section letters page: “To the Editor: Regarding ‘On the da Vinci Trail’ (Q and A, May 9), I’d like to mention our Global Awareness Through Experience tours, www.gate-travel.org, which will go to all “The Da Vinci Code” sites plus Stonehenge and Glastonbury in England. Also included are four churches of the…

So…the last Sopranos until 2006 or something? Letdown? Okay? Of course, it couldn’t match the preceding episode, which was one of the best of the entire series, but I didn’t think it was as awful as some people think. It wasn’t terrifically strong, and it could have used a lot more subtlety, as character after…

So I re-enter the Communion Controversy by pointing you to Terry Mattingly at Get Religion, who examines the failure of reporters to bring doctrinal issues into their coverage of this story: For journalists, it is clear that the next major news hook is when the bishops gather behind closed doors on June 14 in Colorado…

A comment from Rick to get us started: I think most Catholic publishers would brave the wrath of St. Cyprian’s Bookspot if they had a title they believed would sell in volume through Wal-Mart, B & N’s, and Borders. The problem is, only the top 500-100 titles are going to sell in volume through those…

A short, but probably not sweet beginning because I’ve got stuff to do.. The first problem confronting the contemporary Catholic publisher is…who’s buying our books and where? One would think, logically, that the Catholic publisher, like any publisher, would be seeking to get its books out to as many people as possible in places where…

Today’s episcopal appointments: Msgr. Joseph Robert Cistone, vicar of the diocese of Philadelphia, U.S.A., as auxiliary bishop of same diocese (area 5,652, population 3,861,648, Catholics 1,494,883, priests 1,083, permanent deacons 212, religious 569), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in 1949 in Philadelphia and was ordained a priest in 1975. – Msgr. Joseph Patrick McFadden, pastor…

In between BEA trips, the children and I managed a little bit of museum-going. The Museum of Science and Industry, and the old dependable, the Field. I let Katie wander around both by herself while Joseph aimlessly about, punching whatever buttons he could find. Which brings me back to my annual screed against child-oriented science…

Is that when I’m away from blogging for a time, it gets hard for me to get back into it, especially newsy blogging. So don’t come here lookin’ for that any time soon. I’m still not into the groove. Go to Mark, HMS, and Dom, especially for such – but you already knew that, I’m…

Reflections on Catholic publishing and the state of “Catholic” writing (not fiction today) in light of these shows and in anticipation of CBA. Preview: It’s just sad.

How do you people live in really big cities? I mean…how? Even the suburbs of Chicago are a nightmare, in my opinion, even if you avoid downtown altogether. This is not a scene totally unfamiliar to me, having spent a great deal of time in both Tampa and Orlando, which have similar problems. I thought…
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