If anyone wonders what it’s like having the Anthony Weiner circus playing in your backyard, I can tell you. Check out this week’s column, “All Things New”: Suddenly, a lot of us in the area are uncomfortably aware that some of the nice folks who sweep their sidewalks and water the azaleas and smile sweetly at the deli counter in Key Food may have a secret penchant for artless photography on the office BlackBerry. Anthony Weiner, after all, looks normal... Read more
This cat, Fredde Gredde, is new to me, but evidently he’s been floating around the Internets for while, crafting these ingenious videos. (He got a lot of buzz last year, evidently, for his inspired medley of TV Theme Songs.) Take a look at what a little green screen ingenuity can do in his latest opus, a clever rendition of “Killer Queen.” Read more
Actually, it’s television in general. But I’m sure he has something to do with it. Glenn Beck, too, for that matter. Details: No one ever claimed that watching TV was healthy, but doctors are only now discovering just how bad it can be. Evidence from a spate of recent studies suggests that the more TV you watch, the more likely you are to develop a host of health problems and to die at an earlier age. In a new analysis... Read more
He’s giving up his fortune — and some degree of fame — for a life of poverty, chastity and obedience. Details: Dennis Narlock has cooked for Hollywood stars and built a well-known local catering business throughout the past three decades. But Narlock plans to walk away from his business and his cooking career at the end of the year. He says he will also give up his personal wealth and all his worldly possessions after joining a recently-established Catholic religious... Read more
Rocco did yesterday, on the anniversary of the legendary newsman’s passing: Above all, Russert’s death genuinely, deeply shook no shortage of folks — above all, the many ’round here who were so blessed to have known him, but just as much, the far more of us for whom his hour on Sunday morning was almost as awaited as the Lord’s own (or, in some cases, equally so). Indeed, even now, some of us still can’t think of him without a... Read more
Given a post that’s generated a lot of interest the last day or so, I think some readers might want to take a gander at what Elizabeth Scalia has to say on the subject of homosexuality over at First Things: Perhaps homosexuals are in fact “special and exceptional others,” whose distinctions are meant to be noted. Perhaps they are a “necessary other” created and called to play a specific role in our shared humanity. If so, what might that be?... Read more
“I worked with Father Shawn Ratigan for two years. My children were around him. I knew him. For all I know, there’s pictures on his computer of my children. That’s a possibility. But it doesn’t change my support of the bishop.” — Nathan Lewis, supporting embattled Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn. Read more and see video here. Read more
Oklahoma? Ok! The beautiful shot below is from last weekend’s ordination. What a marvelous way to mark Pentecost! The diocese has a great Facebook page with a gallery of pictures, too. Check ’em out. Congratulations, brothers! Ad multos annos! Read more
A reader alerted me to this item in Catholic New York, featuring biographies of the men scheduled to be ordained last weekend. How’d it go? Anybody got any pictures? Ad multos annos, gentlemen! Read more
The folks who keep track of these things set out to measure him recently. Check out the video below. I have to say, there’s something endearing and sweet about his smile. This is a guy who doesn’t seem perturbed by the challenge God has given him. Details: Weighing 11 pounds and standing just under 2 feet tall, Junrey Balawing is a tiny teenager who looks more than a little like a toddler. But he has this going for him: The... Read more
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