of John Polkinghorne, scientist and Anglican priest. Read more

Here’s an interesting story about a Lebanese sheikh who is a big supporter of… the Annunciation. Read more

The Latest Real Jesus, just in time for Holy Week. This year: Gay Jesus! Read more

For today’s pointless make work task, I command you all to write a limerick! Example: There once was a Dark Lord sublimeWho commanded his lackeys to rhymeor circle the drainin his chambers of Painamid endless “Buffalo Bills” recordings that will never ever ever ever end for all time. Okay, it doesn’t scan, but you get the idea. Besides, I’m not paid to be a poet. I’m paid to inflict the poetry of others on you. That is all! PS. Get... Read more

and so I have to book. I will be back later (or tomorrow) with more stuff. Fair warning: I’m crazy busy both with catchup and with a ton of work to do, so blogging may be spare for the next week or so. Read more

…set himself on fire rather than being burnt by Muslims. Of course, he did it because his wife was assaulted… Still, prayers for the whole wretched thing would be good. Read more

…both sang in a vocal jazz ensemble, I have a more than passing interest in any group that has been called “the Grateful Dead of Barbershop Quartets”. Behold Acoustix! It’s in the Shea blood. My cousin, Albert Shea (seen here second from the left) was one of the founders of what might be called the Beatles of Barbershop Quartets (I was told that by a BQ afficianado who was awed by my blood relationship to the most famous BQ tenor... Read more

Humanae Vitae actually knows what it’s talking about. Progressive dissenters, of course, continue to dislike this. Now if we could only get conservative dissenters to acknowledge that the Church even has wisdom to impart on matters that don’t impinge on the sex lives of progressives. Read more

for an 800 year old rite: The Dominican Rite! We’ve celebrated the Dominican Rite a couple of times at Blessed Sacrament over the past couple of years. One of the priests will periodically get queried about whether we will be celebrating the Tridentine rite and they are fond of replying, “Eh? What’s that? Tridentine rite? Oh! You mean the new rite! No. We prefer to stick to Tradition here.” Heh! Read more

American Airlines continues to add spice to my life. I flew out Wednesday and got as far as Dallas. Then they cancelled my Kansas City flight, so I got a “distressed passenger” voucher for the La Quinta hotel in Irving, TX. I called the wonderful Erin Raymond, who was the organizer of the women’s group I was speaking to at Ft. Leavenworth. She was a great glowing ball of upbeat, cheering and organized efficiency who said, “No prob! We’ll do... Read more