5-6 PM Eastern! Listen live here at Real Life Radio. Hope you can join us, and maybe call in. 1-855-949-1380 Mark has a different co-host each day, Weekdays at 5PM EST Saturday at 8AM EST; Sunday at 10PM EST Mark Shea’s “Connecting the Dots” takes a look at everything from pork to pyrotechnics as we explore this delightful, tragic, ordinary, extraordinary, sinful, and redeemed world through eyes of Catholic faith and seek to live as intentional... Read more
At least according to Tiffany Willis, in her piece 27 Bizarre Religious Book Titles that Should Have Been Stopped. I’m #27! According to her bio, the blogger Tiffany Willis “has spent most of her career actively working with ‘the least of these’ and disadvantaged and oppressed populations.” Sister, if you can find anyone more disadvantaged than the author of a book about NFP, you’re a better finder than I am. Still, to have my slim volume in the company of Communism, Hypnotism, and... Read more
photo by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, available from http://fssp.org What did Cardinal Burke actually say about the feminization of the Church? I still haven’t read it, but I’m guessing it’s like a lot of what he says: true and necessary, but expressed in a frustratingly tone-deaf way that is more or less guaranteed to encourage argy bargy. Sorry, but that does seem to be his specialty. So I haven’t read it, because I already have my own opinions about the... Read more
Oh, fun! Sancta Nomina is a blog devoted to Catholic baby names, and the author has devoted an entire post to our dear Shrimpy, who is still known as Shrimpy, even though my due date is Feb. 26. Which is soon. I love talking about names! Check out the blog and leave a suggestion. I’m not even kidding; we really need help. Read more
image by Thierry Geoffroy via Wikimedia Commons It’s expensive to run a medical facility, and reasonably so, because when people’s lives are at stake, you should be willing to spend a little money. If you want to perform surgery, then you should be ready to perform surgery. If you think women’s lives are not worth an upgrade or two on your facility, then maybe you’re in the wrong business. Read the rest at the Register. Read more
Crux is running a quickie story headlined Pope meets two American stars: Angelina Jolie and Cardinal Burke; and the picture featured is of the Pope shaking hands with a smiling, decorously attired Jolie, who was in town to promote her film Unbroken. Jolie has … said the experience of making the film has reopened her to the idea of the divine, if not any specific religious faith. … In a statement, Jolie called the chance to present the film at the Vatican “an... Read more
A lovely lady (hi, lovely lady!) sent me an Amazon gift card, so I did something I haven’t done in maybe ten years: bought a new album. It’s on repeat now, all five songs of it, and that’s why I’m not getting anything done today. The album is Son Little: Things I Forgot. Here is “Your Love Will Blow Me Away When My Heart Aches.” This guy is the real deal. Haven’t heard anything this good in years and years.... Read more
If we want a pro-life message to be part of the conversation on environmental policy, then the Pope must speak. Read the rest at the Register. Read more
New year! Great time to get your rotten, miserable kids to carry their weight a little bit. . For reference, our kids’ ages are 16, 15, 14, 12, 10, 9, 7, 5, and 3. I am 32 weeks pregnant, my husband works long and late, and I work from home, and our house is small. . It is not clean. . However, the major areas of it do get attended to regularly, so we don’t generally refuse to let reasonably tolerant people in... Read more
. . . Tom McDonald, Dale Ahlquist, Jason Stellman, and Steven Greydanus. Mark’s new radio show, Connecting the Dots, airs on Real Life Radio from 5-6:00 PM Eastern, five days a week, and I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting with Mark on Mondays. You can listen live online here. About the show: Mark Shea’s “Connecting the Dots” takes a look at everything from pork to pyrotechnics as we explore this delightful, tragic, ordinary, extraordinary, sinful, and redeemed world through eyes of Catholic faith and... Read more
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