Tim Muldoon’s piece this week really is both profound and romantic and profoundly romantic: On the day this column is published, a woman named Sue will make a decision that will affect the rest of her life. To be more precise, she will reaffirm a decision that she has already made 6,574 times: to spend the day married to me. On this day, she and I will celebrate eighteen years of marriage. In days like these when fewer people choose... Read more
From reader Karen: A friend’s little boy, Jadon, was diagnosed with leukemia a few weeks ago. He has had 2 chemo treatments and has come down with an overwhelming infection. He is in the ICU at our local Children’s Hospital. He has had internal bleeding and went into cardiac arrest for 15 minutes before they got him back. He is on a ventilator. He is getting all kinds of antibiotics, his blood cultures have all come back positive for infection.... Read more
You know what? I don’t like game-players, I just don’t. I especially don’t like them in politics, which is why I like so few politicians, any more. And it seems to me that Sarah Palin is going out of her way to play a game, here, and I can’t say I’m admiring it. I know some do. I know some feel that the press has treated Palin very badly, and so she’s entitled to treat them badly, too. Well, the... Read more
Saying really smart things! That would be Pat Gohn in her latest Among Women Podcast, where she makes a very loving and learned exposition of of Mary’s visit to Elizabeth and what it teaches us, and then brings in her fellow Patheos Columnist, Happy Catholic’s Julie Davis — herself a golden-voiced podcaster of tireless energies, to discuss Julie’s terrific book (it’s on my desk as I write this) Happy Catholic; Glimpses of God in Everyday Life . They have a... Read more
I know, I know, I said the Summablog would take the place of multi-link posts, but this time indulge me, because these are all things you will want to read and since they’re all Patheos things, you know…old habits and such…. First up, On the battlefields and in the hospitals, soldiers on both sides of the Civil War owed their consolation, and sometimes their limbs or their very lives, to the that most exotic and mysterious of creatures: the Catholic... Read more
The problem with Kitty is that she thinks she’s so special because she can talk, that she takes what is not hers. Poor other kitty, so cowed! Still, it’s pretty great. Read more
My column at First Things for the upcoming Feast of the Ascension: It is this onenes Father Barron describes when he writes of the “interacting and interpenetrating fields of force” that are heaven and earth, constantly commingling, and within the church embodying a true encounter between bridegroom and bride. That is considered archaic language, I know — Flannery O’ Connor called it “a metaphor that can be dispensed with” — but the brilliant Ms. O’ Connor was uncharacteristically off the... Read more
Instapundit, that is! Over at Summa This, Summa That, which I have nicknamed The Summablog — and which will soon have its own twitter account — I use my neat new format to prove Rick Rice’s point: Check out the landing page (scroll down!) for Summablog updates — they go on, all day! Related: Summa This, Summa That Launch! Read more
I awoke this morning with this in my head, and it’s been an earworm all day: Accept, Almighty Father This gift of bread and wine Which now your priest does offer To You O GOD benign. In humble reparation for sins and failings dread To win life everlasting for living and for dead. Actually, what I awoke with was the next part: Oh, God, by this commingling of water and of wine may He who took our nature Give us... Read more
I’ve been wanting to do this since I started managing the Catholic portal, and now it’s a go: scroll down the landing page of the Catholic Portal to get a gander of the new link-blog which replaces the group-blog that never really took off, but retains it’s name because, well, “Summa This, Summa That” really suits a Catholic-hosted blog that will — rather like Insty (though not nearly as pithily clever as Glenn Reynolds) — direct you to interesting or... Read more
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