Doesn’t it sometimes seem that you were meant to live in a different age? That the world has turned and somehow, you didn’t get the memo? I ran across an article on “The Poetry of Faith” which appeared in Time Magazine. Published on July 1, 1946, it offered a thumbs-up review of a new anthology of Catholic poetry by the British poet Alfred Noyes. “The greatest writing in human history,” said Time, “is religious writing.” Oh, how I ache for... Read more
The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. –Psalm 19:1 Lonely planet: It’s not a plaintive 1950s love song. “Lonely planet” is the name given by scientists to a recently discovered type of planet which floats freely in the dark, without a star to go around. A team of astronomers led by David Bennett of Notre Dame, using a 5.9-foot telescope in New Zealand, reported a few months ago... Read more
Up to date on the news as usual, I’m here to comment on Jen Fulwiler’s post at the Register last December, “Why are there no Catholic Mom Bloggers on this Top 100 List?” The article references Babble’s Top 100 Mommy Bloggers. The question has been puzzling me, this long wintry month, as almost all of the blogs I read are written by Catholic women who are mothers but who elude the title “Mommy Blogger” for a number of reasons, as Fulwiler... Read more
I was sitting in a monastery wondering why I was attracted to such a life and thought it probably had to do with my personality style, and thought I wouldn’t have found it very difficult at all, “What you mean I can have a room all to myself? You mean I am actually encouraged not to talk to anyone? You mean there will be a great big library with all the kinds of books I like to read? There will... Read more
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. –Colossians 1:17 Laminin is the building block of the human body, the glycoprotein which holds all together. And what does this glycoprotein look like? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0-NPPIeeRk Read more
Go here for my blog post on the real battle behind the government’s HHS Mandate. Read more
It always bugged me that Susan G. Koman for the Cure threw so much money toward Planned Parenthood when there are well-established (but ignored) links between abortion and breast cancer. Today it was announced that the foundation is halting its grants to Planned Parenthood: Planned Parenthood says the move results from Komen bowing to pressure from anti-abortion activists. Komen says the key reason is that Planned Parenthood is under investigation in Congress — a probe launched by a conservative Republican... Read more
Hot off the cyber-presses! Notre Dame University’s Institute for Catholic Living today launches a new online journal: Church Life; A Journal for the New Evangelization There are a whole bunch of interesting writers in there, including Cardinal-designate Archbishop Timothy Dolan (writing on “The Dignity of the Human Person”, page 39), Fr. Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, (page 6) and, er…me (page 42). Yes, my head spins at the company I keep, sometimes! My piece is about Catholics online — timely, since the... Read more
So away we drove, armored with a GPS and comfy shoes, on the Great American Road Trip. We set off, sans itinerary, to visit relatives in Ohio, our son in South Carolina, and then….??? These past ten years, I have been a frequent flyer—jetting here and there, facing jet lag but not road fatigue, frequenting airport terminals instead of gas stations. This time, though, we would be roaming along the highway, getting up close and personal with forests and fields,... Read more
Photo by Bob Mullen/The Catholic Photographer/NY Daily News In my First Things column, today, I find the silver lining behind the cloud of this administration’s assault on the constitutional right to Freedom of Religion. To be sure, this situation is cause for concern, but there are some bright spots in all of this. Although the mainstream press has reported very little about this event—a close examination might prove uncomfortable for their own worldviews—the unified public expression of righteous defiance by... Read more
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