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…this weekend? Well, some of us walked – yes, walked – from Kentucky to Ohio. Whew! (They rode the bus back, though. Interstate traveling can be tiring.)

….I’ll try to knock a few more recent reads off here. Last week I read Aunt Jeanne by Georges Simenon. All I knew about Simenon was that he was prolific, and that he wrote mysteries. I have a vague memory of a row of books by him somewhere – I want to say the ancestral…

We stopped in a local “international” grocery store yesterday – mostly Latino foodstuffs, but selections of Greek and Italian as well. Anyway, I let the boys get paletas. Joseph picked watermelon, which was fantastic, and I picked “fruit cocktail” for Michael. I tasted it first. It tasted kind of – odd. I tasted it again.…

From his series on the apostles, Pope Benedict on Bartholomew, traditionally associated with Nathanael,  last October: His heart is moved by Jesus’ words, he feels understood and he understands: “This man knows everything about me, he knows and is familiar with the road of life; I can truly trust this man”. And so he answers…

A couple of notes from elsewhere: Diane from Te Deum Laudemus has a great video she has put together on Benediction at her parish, Assumption Grotto in Detroit. She is hosting it at GodTube, not YouTube, and adds: I had to move it to GodTube because of the filth on YouTube that came up along…

Of course, the big religion “news” yesterday, propelled by a Drudge link, was an excerpt from and analysis of Mother Teresa’s decades-long dark night of the soul, described in a new book, to be published by Doubleday next month called Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light. This is not news, although the detailed excerpts in…

Anyone home here? Many thanks to the thousands of you who are stopping by, and apologies for the wretched posting. This was the first week everyone was back at school and Michael the Toddler starts his morning preschool routine. My fall project (besides a pamphlet Michael reminded me about last night….grrrr) is a novel, and my head…

What with traveling and all,  I’ve not been keeping up with the Pope’s General Audience talks. He’s continuing his survey of the Church Fathers, something he began on March 7, with Clement of Rome. On July 4 and August 1, he spoke of St. Basil. He began with an outline of Basil’s life and his pastoral achievements:…

Disaster’s after-effects in Peru and the Caribbean. Looming disaster in Mexico. Catholic Relief Services Caritas Peru Food for the Poor Add any smaller charities of which you are aware in the comments. Some help from the Pope: Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) once again expressed his concern for the victims of last week’s earthquake…

With one episode left for the season, Big Love is heating up, and very well.  There were many excellent, some weird moments in this week’s episode, but what interests me the most is the rather ingenious way that the impact of the parents’ polygamous lifestyle is being played out in the older children’s lives –…
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