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…to fill in my non-blogging void. Reader Julia passes on some links related to a Welsh museum that has rebuilt and restored a small church to its pre-Stripping of the Altars beauty: A BBC article and photo series (from 2006)  The Museum’s site Ian of the excellent online Catholic bookseller Aquinas and More has picked…

From the Archdiocese: Bishop-elect Callahan, 57 (born June 17, 1950), is a Conventual Franciscan of the St. Bonaventure Province in Chicago. A native of Chicago, Callahan has served in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee as associate pastor of the Basilica of St. Josaphat Parish, from 1977 to 1978, and, again, as rector and pastor of St.…

Michael the Toddler (almost 3!) has learned many lessons in his brief life so far. One of them is that when you sneeze, people say either “bless you” or “Gesundheit.” So he responds in kind, politely. He has also absorbed the lesson that something similar happens when you cough. The response to a cough is…

Oh, okay we have our problems with so many facets of the BBC, radio included, but there’s much quality there – Rich Leonardi points us to a series from Eamon Duffy on “Ten Popes Who Changed the World.”  You can’t download, but they’re only 15 minutes each, so easy listening at the computer. He begins,…

William Doino, in First Things: Tomorrow, on October 26, the Catholic hero Franz Jägerstätter will be beatified in Linz, Austria. Executed in 1943 for refusing to serve in Hitler’s army, Jägerstätter was once known only to his relatives and neighbors—many of whom considered him mad. Born out of wedlock in 1907 in the tiny village…

Folks are doing some Crispin-blogging today, posting Shakespeare and such. Because they’re noble and erudite.  For my part, I ran across this fascinating artifact – how one cartoonist in Harper’s Weekly used St. Crispin to make a bigoted, fearmongering anti-immigration…er…statement back in 1870.

To try to get myself back into blogging shape, a couple of recent hits around here. (And speaking of the other…I’m up to 2.5 miles running/no walking/no stopping. If you’d told me two months ago I’d be back up to this point, I’d have laughed. Hard. Thanks to this guy!  Although I’m not listening to that…

Yesterday, Benedict continued his General Audience catechesis by speaking about Ambrose of Milan. The text is here: (I would say that while these all have been good, this one is something special. Even the beginning is a bit different, more dramatic:) The saintly Bishop Ambrose, of whom I will speak to you today, died during…

Some of you are familiar with one of the mothership mega-churches, Willow Creek in Chicago. Seeker-sensitive, heavily programmed, “innovative,” determined to reach out, bring in those seekers and make disciples out of them.  In the 90’s, the Willow Creek Association was formed to link up and assist other churches around the country and the world who…

Just a few of the many tidbits that have interested me during the past few days of internet wanderings: The Catholic News Service News Hub is back and improved, both visually and in terms of content.  The core remains interesting stories from Catholic newspapers around the country, but added to the mix are blog-like nuggets…
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