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Interesting times at Notre Dame these days, what with their Queer Film Festival and performance of the V-Monologues. There are a couple of ND students who blog, and one of them has some thoughts at The Shrine of the Holy Whapping, which will, we hope, be followed up by more as this unfolds. There is,…

I read this and I thought, “Well! He’s in good shape!” Pope John Paul II reaches first state tournament A high school of course. We can add it to the verrrrry long list of related headlines like “St. Agnes demolishes Holy Family” and so on.

FDA delay decision until May A ruling had been expected next week on the pills, called Plan B, made by Barr Laboratories. The company announced late Friday that the Food and Drug Administration (news – web sites) is delaying action for 90 days on Barr’s request to sell Plan B without prescriptions to give time…

At Christianity Today’s Weblog, working hard So I Don’t Have To. Plus thoughts on Christian blogging. Sometime, in all of this Blog-Discussion, someone needs to mention the function of comments. That is such an important element – not of all blogs, certainly, but of many. It’s fine for a blog not to have comments, but…

Schindler family wins appeal Gov. Jeb Bush and the parents of a severely brain-damaged woman won appellate court rulings in their favor Friday on two legal issues in their quest to keep the woman alive against her husband’s wishes. Florida’s 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that Pinellas Circuit Court Judge W. Douglas Baird did…

Just as I was pulling up to park at the babysitter’s, the morning DJ reminded me it was Friday the 13th. I’d forgotten (I’m not keeping track of time too well these days.) Oh, I thought. How interesting. Just at that moment, a black cat ran in front of the car. Do you know how…

A new book from Paul Thigpen, found here!

As previously noted, I’m participating in the HMS University for Living, offering a workshop on the Parables of Jesus. For 6 weeks, using the Loyola Press “6 Weeks With the Bible” Parables: Stories of the Kingdom book that I wrote, (and along with all the stuff I didn’t get to use in the book, we’ll…

Maybe Gest’s lawyers don’t fully appreciate the fact that their client presents like a pathetic cross between Blanche DuBois and, well, Liza Minnelli.

The stories are unrelated, but they’re all bishops, so. Saginaw Bishop Untener announces he is battling a leukemia-type disease, will take four months off Bishop Murphy responds to charges Jury begins deliberations in Phoenix.

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