Ana Ng and I are getting old, and we still haven’t watched

in the blog of each other’s majestic presence…

Daniel Mitsui: Oh wow. St. Michael, looking kind of intergalactic.

MCNS/Irish Elk: Dismas, who is (predictably!) one of my favorite saints:

…Newsman MacMurphy’s fortunes advanced. Finally he became the News’s business manager. Every March 25 his St. Dismas piece crept a little nearer the front page. And on that day MacMurphy would write again the homely praises of his favorite saint: “There are so many better advertised saints, all specialists, that few mortals bother much with this hoodlum saint, who roams the outfield of eternity, making shoestring catches of souls—a saint who has no following to speak of, no medals, no propaganda. There’s nothing to recommend him, really, except the fact that to no other saint in the calendar did the Son of God make the witnessed statement: ‘You fill the bill.’ Which helps explain why those who do believe in Dismas believe in him all the way.”

more (via Mark Shea)