It is still with us. Be warned, this will break your heart, but it is also deeply beautiful. Read more

A Swiss reader writes: I get links to your site fro newadvent.org occasionally. This headline sparked my interest. Reading it, I’m a little aghast! Your proposal is interesting, but the Mass is NOT the place for it. Not in any way, shape, or form regardless of how in-tune to ecumenism the pastor or bishop may be. The Mass is the place where we celebrate and worship God. It’s the sacred mystery which is central to our faith. While the sermon... Read more

A Swiss reader writes: I get links to your site fro newadvent.org occasionally. This headline sparked my interest. Reading it, I’m a little aghast! Your proposal is interesting, but the Mass is NOT the place for it. Not in any way, shape, or form regardless of how in-tune to ecumenism the pastor or bishop may be. The Mass is the place where we celebrate and worship God. It’s the sacred mystery which is central to our faith. While the sermon... Read more

A reader writes: There’s a bit of a story here. Liturgy Training Publications, of Chicago, sent out the following Prayers of the Faithful suggestion last week following Ted Kennedy’s death: “For those who have given their lives to service to their country, promoting values of peace, justice, equality, and liberty; especially, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, that he may find his eternal reward in the arms of God….We pray…” Then I sent them the following comment (with a CC to Helen... Read more

A reader writes: There’s a bit of a story here. Liturgy Training Publications, of Chicago, sent out the following Prayers of the Faithful suggestion last week following Ted Kennedy’s death: “For those who have given their lives to service to their country, promoting values of peace, justice, equality, and liberty; especially, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, that he may find his eternal reward in the arms of God….We pray…” Then I sent them the following comment (with a CC to Helen... Read more

I thought you would appreciate Ross Douthat’s latest column for the NY Timesfrom Sunday on the different outlooks held by Eunice Shriver and her brother Ted Kennedy on you-know-what issue. Yep. I saw it yesterday! My thoughts upon reading it: An excellent column, well-researched and clearly, simply written. As I read the comments attached to it, always an exercise in frustration-building, it occurred to me that the clear cognitive dissonance that Douthat points to in positions on abortion–popular among many... Read more

Kansas City Bishops Issue Joint Health Care Reform Pastoral Statement Read more

here and here. She’s trying to figure out why the numbers are dropping. No, it’s apparently got nothing to do with the scandals. Indeed, the year of the scandal (2002) was a banner year for converts. Evidence points elsewhere. Sherry is one gutsy gal, by the way. My wife and I have been watching Stargate SG-1 via Netflix and we had no idea the horrors that regularly visited Colorado Springs. How she finds the courage to keep living there after... Read more

Here’s the former Number 2 guy who took an oath to uphold the laws of the land, airing his contempt for that law to the cheers of millions of people who used to be called “conservatives”: CHENEY: Chris, my sort of overwhelming view is that the enhanced interrogation techniques were absolutely essential in saving thousands of American lives and preventing further attacks against the United States, and giving us the intelligence we needed to go find Al Qaeda, to find... Read more

How can I tell? He’s featured on the Nerdworld blog, that’s how! Read more