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I have work to do, so I shouldn’t have really clicked on EWTN’s live feed of the USCCB. Because I did, and instead of the boring stuff I expected to hear, I catch Bishop Aquila of Fargo exhorting the body, in the discussion on the Faithful Citizenship document to replace language referring to “spiritual well-being”…

…a couple of notes on the ties that bind, “small” apostolates that fly under the radar but are, in fact, the kind of life and service that mark the Catholic life around the world: At Atonement Online, Fr. Phillips, pastor of that Anglican Use Catholic parish in San Antonio, writes of the support his parish…

…if you’re following such things: As expected, Cardinal George of Chicago was just elected president of the USCCB. (It is a system that is almost pro-forma. The vice president is usually expected to become the president, and Cardinal George was the vice president.) (Jason Berry’s LATimes op-ed from Sunday questioning the Cardinal’s commitment to cleaning…

I’m trying not to watch the USCCB  – is it sad that it’s a temptation? Perhaps. But it’s interesting to see the personalities in action, to read between lines, etc. I was interested this morning to hear bits and pieces of Archbishop Wuerl speak on a proposed high school curriculum outline. I didn’t know something…

Finished reading History, a fairly massive novel (in translation)  about Italy a bit before, during and after World War II. Although there are many characters, at the center of the story is Ida, a schoolteacher and her sons, an older boy nicknamed Nino, born of her marriage (her husband dies before the war) and Useppe,…

A couple of random things I ran across: Dawn Eden has a post about what seems to be a great parish in Atlantic City – St. Nicholas Karen from Tucson will be coming into the Church in a couple of weeks and her blog is a wonderful place to catch  – or recapture – the…

Phone rings Katie: Hey, Mom, remember last week when I told you I got my opponent really frustrated? Me: Yeah… Katie: And you said, ‘What are you going to tell me next week, that you made your opponent cry?” Me: Uh-huh… Katie: Well…. (And yes, I did tell her that she has to be very,…

The Floor is almost finished. We can move furniture back on it on Monday. But we’ll be doing that gradually, since we need to repaint in there anyway. A couch and the television should do it. I’ve also decided to just keep my desk where it is, here next to my friend the washing machine,…

Congrats to Greg Popcak for making the LATimes op-ed page, in response to an earlier op-ed on abortion by Garry Wills: Wills, confident that he has torn down the crucifix, attempts to place a statue of the Goddess of Reason in its place, but even there he fails. He argues the woman needs to be…

In our quest for easy readers (and yes, Joseph is advancing very well, thanks – his first grade teacher and curriculum is very good. But then that’s my experience. Everything’s great almost everywhere until about third grade. Then at that point, things just start going off the rails and somehow teaching and learning in the…
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