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Fr. Stanley, in a comment below, refers to someone cheating on an ethics paper. Heh. My favorite cry from my days in teaching in Catholic high school was one that would drift from the halls (in a school in which many, if not most kids didn’t lock their lockers): “Someone stole my Bible!” As I…

I’m no economist, but one of the issues I find myself really interested in these days is outsourcing – sending white collar jobs from programming to accounting to technical support – overseas. (Similar, but not identical to simply shutting down plants and moving operations overseas, issues that David Morrison and Fr. Jim have been discussing)…

..or however that goes. What with two sons in college, twenty-plus years after I was there, in the days before the internet, one of the things I’m always interested in is how professors are dealing with the threat and fact of internet plagiarism – buying papers off the internet, and so on. Last semester, one…

I’m going to tell you that I’m going to shift the direction of this blog, just slightly. The thing is that I have a lot of work to do in the next five months, work that just got some more work piled on top of it. I have a book due in June, then there’s…

(OT meaning “off-topic”, rather than “Old Testament,” btw) Here’s the thing. A couple of weeks ago, I had a headache when I was trying to go to sleep. It wasn’t a terrible headache – I’m not susceptible to migraines or anything – but it was enough to keep me awake. Then, I started thinking. You…

From the Washington Times, an article about priests from other countries filling the gaps But church officials say they do not actively recruit priests from other countries. “They are looking to come here,” said Anne Edwards, spokeswoman for the Diocese of Richmond. Priests from other countries come to the United States because the standard of…

From Carl Olson, written for a Protestant website, because, you know, he’s one of those unecumenical New Apologists. When my final Protestant pastor (a good man and dear friend) saw that I was becoming deadly serious about entering the Roman Catholic Church, he made one last, desperate pitch. “Why don’t you found your own church?”…

From Conor, and worth discussing: (BTW Here’s an update on the situation he’s discussing.) At the risk of being attacked, can I ask why this guy should be kicked out of the priesthood, bounced, or banned from public ministry? Certainly, it is gravely immoral to use marijuana and to break laws by growing it. But…

Follow the lead of that Chicago group Thirty local priests have signed a strongly worded letter protesting what they call violent language toward homosexuals in a Vatican document. The 12-page Vatican document discourages same-sex marriage and instructs Catholic lawmakers to vote against proposals that would allow the marriages. “Language can destroy or build up,” said…

In Colorado, a family says good-bye to a son for whom they cared for decades The Eloes, devout members of the Catholic Church who always brought Thomas to services, wouldn’t change anything about their son’s life. Marilyn was firm that her son’s situation was meant to be and that Thomas’ disabilities worked over the years…
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