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The Pope’s speech today, to members of the Austrian government, and the diplomatic corps: The “European home”, as we readily refer to the community of this continent, will be a good place to live for everyone only if it is built on a solid cultural and moral foundation of common values drawn from our history…

Two notes on reaching out: Thanks to a reader for sending along this Washington Times story on a new home for single pregnant women and young mothers: The home is named for Paul Stefan James, the son of Randy and Evie James, who lived one hour after being born without lungs. Mrs. James was told…

Looks like Vatican Radio is the go-to spot for quick translations today. At the airport: Mariazell does not only represent 850 years of history, but shows us on the basis of that history – as reflected in the statue of the Blessed Mother pointing to Christ her Son – the way to the future. In…

…if you were a hard-rocking guy working in sports broadcasting who turned 25 today, what would be the picture you’d least enjoy seeing of yourself on your mother’s blog?

Yes, our 80-year old Pope is off to Austria on Friday. Here’s the official page on the visit from the Vatican. He will arrive at around 11:30 am. Get up a little after 5 Eastern and check out the EWTN of the arrival, part of their coverage, listed here. Or go straight to the source…

One more post bouncing off current trends in American evangelicalism. Certainly, all religious movements have their…tendencies. Some of you might remember a post I wrote on the old blog about how everything, in the end will go haywire, so the task of institutions is to try to minimize that possibility, but recognizing its inevitability and trying to insure…

I’ve always been interested in non-mainline American Protestantism (and a bit in mainline Protestantism as well, of course) simply because I’m interested in religion, period, particularly from an historical and political persepective. In particular, over the past forty years or so, Catholicism has interacted with this type of Christianity (evangelicalism in its broadest sense) and…

Today, during his General Audience in an apparently windy St. Peter’s Square (the Pope is still residing in Castel Gandalfo, but returns to Rome for the GA. Oh, and check out Fr. Jay at Young Fogeys for a collage of the Pope’s “Mood Cape.“), Pope Benedict made reference to Mother Teresa, on today the 10th…

For some reason, a few months ago, I got slightly obsessed with reading adoption blogs. Oh, I know exactly how it happened. It was around Easter, and I was doing one of those “Catholics celebrating around the world” posts, and a GoogleBlog search turned up a post about, I think, Easter at a Catholic church…

Yeah, sorry about the lack of bloggage of either the thinking or linking type. There is no huge pressing reason. A few little ones. I’m reading a lot more these days – back up to my old rate of 3 or 4 books a week. I’m thinking about those books and thinking about fiction, trying…
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