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Had a long chat with a diocesan employee yesterday, who kept referring to the bishop as “Bishop.” As in “Bishop said” and “Bishop thinks.” This initially struck me as very strange until I considered, well we say “Father said,” not “The Father said.” So I guess it all makes sense.

I’ll let you know whenever we’re going out of town and where we’re going over the next few months – So you don’t go there Why? Because, when we go places, the power has a habit of going out. We were in Cleveland, stuck in a very hot and very dark Residence Inn, on August…

I hope. It’s the end of blogging until Sunday night. I’ve got book signings all day today (will I be actually signing books or just sitting there forlornly, like so many of us authors do at these events? I dunno. It’s in combination with a big sale at the Cathedral Bookstore, there was a decent…

Been there since yesterday, I forgot Very interesting responses to recent objections to the US Sexual Abuse norms made by canonists, how the Vatican and the US government are trying to make nice, and an interview with a young Catholic man, which leads to Allen’s reflection: I’ve spent considerable time talking to Catholic young people,…

From my various progeny: 21-year old son: (after a pause) So…when he graduates from high school, I’ll be…40? 12-year old daughter (in tears) It might be mentally retarded because you’re so old! 18-year old son: Okay. Cool. almost 3-year old son: Let’s get a girl (gir-gul) baby for Katie (Kay), a boy baby for me…

Sad piece about a former estate-turned-home-for-unmarried-mothers run by a religious order, now up on the auction block She chuckled, remembering parties in the ornate, wood-paneled basement bar and billiards room; proudly patted the antique sewing machines where the sisters once stitched together hospital gowns for a local textile company; smiled, remembering the bingo games, naps…

This was written by Bishop Vasa (Eugene, Oregon) in his “The Heart and Mind of Bishop Vasa” column on March 4, 2004: “As I left Saint Katherine Church in Enterprise the sign on the door caught my eye. It is the most appropriate sign for the inside of a Church door. It simply stated: ‘You…

If you’d like a more detailed look at “De-Coding Da Vinci,” go to here, and you’ll find it.

In Louisville! In a surprise visit, Mel Gibson ate chicken and rice, signed autographs and posed for pictures with residents and staff at the St. Joseph’s Home on Poplar Level Road Wednesday. It was all a big surprise for the Little Sisters of the Poor when the Hollywood mogul brought them a private showing of…

There’s a big stew going on in the Diocese of Peoria about the dismissal of a long-time Catholic school teacher and coach. The diocese has been not terrifically specific in its public statements about the reasons, citing things like inadequate enforcement of discipline and insubordination. I really don’t care about that, although perhaps I should.…
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