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In which we resume our long look at the sacraments and our contemplation of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Read more

My son Peter got the word last night: he’s been cast as the Beast in the upcoming CORE Theatrics production of Beauty and the Beast. We are, of course, busting our buttons here at Chez Shea. Peter, who is currently rehearsing to play Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is noticing that he seems to get cast as Jerk Who Gets Transformed into Animal a lot. He’s not sure what that means, but he’s vibrating with excitement over getting cast.... Read more

A reader writes: I wrote to you and your readers about a year ago, and with the help of their prayers I was hired at a job I really enjoyed, with a boss I really liked. I have been there about a year and just found out that we are being taken over by another company, and my position may be axed. I would really appreciate prayers that things will work out for me whether I keep my job or... Read more

He writes: I wanted to let you know that, after a brief struggle with bladder cancer, my father died on Friday afternoon. I would ask for you and your family’s prayers at this time. It’s a weird situation in that as he was absent from my life for the duration of my growing up I don’t really “feel” much right now, but the remainder of my immediate family, he loomed large. Father, hear our prayer for the repose of this... Read more

I’m beginning to wonder why, when he isn’t talking about his extremely specialized field, people think he Knows Something. In the past couple of years he has come out with two public pronouncements, both of which struck me as somewhere between utterly crazy or, like today, just… weird. The one a couple of years ago was about our urgent need to colonize Mars because earth wouldn’t last–a statement something like saying the population of Seattle needs to all move to... Read more

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Bishop Slattery evidently knocked one out of the park at the big Pontifical Mass in DC yesterday. A reader writes: This was an unbelievable sermon delivered yesterday and it is likely to be getting a lot of coverage in Catholic blogs. I was blessed to find the full text in my inbox this morning after making comments online that I would like to have it. I have since added a link to the blog of Father Z where he has... Read more

the one child policy. Welcome news if true. I wonder if that’s because they are now entering into the “How were we supposed to know?” phase of history as a generation awash in testosterone is realizing it has no prospect for marriage and is starting to feel the need to direct all that frustrated energy towards, oh, I don’t know, changing the government, violently if necessary? Read more

their celibate Scoutmaster policy. Read more