I am so glad my kids have the memory of conceiving the idea of a lemonade stand, on a hot summer’s day. I’m glad they hauled out the coolers, and scrubbed them down carefully, taking responsibility for their product. I’m glad they made lemonade and trundled it all down to the curb, and set up a table, and an umbrella, and had a chance to exchange pleasantries with the neighbors while cooling them off and making a very slight profit.... Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I noted that Mayor Mike Bloomberg was inviting neither clergy nor First Responders to the 9/11 Memorial service in NYC. I thought public outcry might move the mule, but without any push from mainstream media, he is comfortably sticking to his guns. No clergy, no prayer, and there’s no room for the First Responders, either. Only a few will be there, by special invitation. Making the point that the first recorded death at the WTC... Read more
Normally Deacon Greg is the one blubbering over these sorts of videos. As you know, I am tough. Read more
There is breaking news, tonight, of a “credible and specific but unconfirmed” terror threat. Which isn’t surprising. Al Qaeda is being pummeled and probably feels like it is still a force to be reckoned with. Who didn’t expect some sort of credible threat? I thought, with that in the air, it’s a good time to remember that there are people who get up, in the middle of the night, when the rest of us are asleep, or deeply in our... Read more
That was fast: The AP (the AP!) fact-checkers are calling bogus on President Obama’s speech Meanwhile Arnold Kling gets interesting with invaders, peasants, and fortified towns. (H/T to Insty) Read more
Today we remember the Nativity of Mary. I like the words of St. Andrew of Crete, which read read in today’s Office of Readings: Justly, then, do we celebrate this mystery since it signifies for us a double grace. We are led toward the truth, and we are led away from our condition of slavery to the letter of the law. How can this be? Darkness yields before the coming of the light, and grace exchanges legalism for freedom. But... Read more
A few weeks ago, Deacon Greg Kandra wrote a column for Patheos, entitled No Flip-Flops in the King’s House. Remember when people actually used to get dressed up to go to church? When people actually showed up early for mass? When the pew wasn’t the preferred site for a family picnic? When did all this change? I must have missed the memo. Somewhere along the way, we went from neckties to tank tops, and from fasting to fast food. And... Read more
A while back, I mentioned on twitter that I was making a “Mexican Meat Loaf” recipe of my own design. Requests for the recipe came fast and furious and some are still asking for it, three months later. The problem is, since it’s just something I throw together, I really don’t have measurements for you. But it’s kind of wet and rainy over here, and a little cool — good weather for meatloaf, so here goes: You’ll notice the hard-boiled... Read more
Kathryn Jean Lopez has written a thoughtful and terrific piece addressing Stephen Prothero’s puzzling or deliberately provocative notion that Dorothy Day’s abortion could interfere with her cause for sainthood. Prothero wrote: “Can Catholics abide a saint who had an abortion?” Possibly reconsidering the question as a bit aggressive, he rephrased it: “Can you be a saint if you have committed the original sin of contemporary Catholicism?” Lopez writes: It’s probably fair to say that Day is more readily embraced by... Read more
This is distressing. Two buildings damaged, but thankfully no one was injured. Read more
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