The Dominican Nuns of Summit, NJ, (the great soap and hand creme nuns and best lipbalm evah) announce the arrival of another new postulant into their growing novitiate. Although Sr. Janlyn arrived to their house on the feastday of St. Dominic, they’ve announced her today, on the Feast of St. Gregory the Great. This seems fitting, actually, since their new postulant is a trained vocalist who will add much to the nun’s daily chanting. Since we credit St. Gregory the... Read more
Deacon Greg sent this my way, noting, “this is extraordinary, and the piece mentions you, too!” Such a star, I am! What is “extraordinary” is the lengthy post Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley put up in his blog, addressing the criticism he has received for presiding (in a very minimalist way, it must be said) at the Funeral Mass of Sen. Ted Kennedy. For the record, I wasn’t one of those suggesting Kennedy should not have a Catholic funeral; my gripe... Read more
Okay, it’s a hodge-podge, but I have a lot to cover. First up, if you are inclined to prayer, please pray for a boy in critical condition: Ben had a heart attack a few days ago on the soccer field. His heart attack it turns out, was from a huge blood clot in his leg, which has since been amputated below the knee. He is stabilizing but still in need of much prayer. Also, some may recall praying for blogger... Read more
When Sarah Palin talked about the “death panel” provisions residing within the Obamacare bill she was excoriated in the press and by the left for her inelegant and un-nuanced language, and –because she is the left’s Emmanuel Goldstein-in-training – for also being stupid and wrong, and a hick. Meanwhile, the Senate Finance Committee quietly scrapped the provision to which Palin was referring. No, the words “death panel” had never existed in the bill, but Palin neatly identified the inevitable trend... Read more
Have a laugh! Ominous Music Heard Throughout U.S. Sends Nation Into Panic Read more
As my Auntie Lillie would sing when the tribe got started, “O, the Catholics are a-fighting, alive, alive O, alive, alive O” I always took her to mean that while the Catholics might be fighting among themselves (describes the family, of course) it meant they were still alive. I don’t know what Auntie Lillie actually meant by it, but that’s my take. I bring it up thinking you might be interested in reading about the donnybrook taking place in the... Read more
Over at Conversion Diary, Jen is asking bloggers to tell what they think is their defining post. Impossible. I’ve written over 5,000 posts, most of them forgettable. Some of the posts involving Dick Meyer columns might have been good, and their stream-of-consciousness layout maybe defines my writing here. It’s all what is in my head of a moment; 99% of what I write here is first-draft-rough-cut blowing off steam, confessing sins or just pondering. Like, the time I found out... Read more
Catching up on all the stories since I have been away and I must have missed this one when it broke – the header: Democrat: Republicans hate ObamaCare because they’re racists. Also, Castro’s a genius. The Democrat is Rep. Diane Watson (D-California). Watson is both African-American and female, so she is speaking from the fake ledge of “absolute moral authority” which was once the province of Cindy Sheehan until she stopped being a useful bat for to beat around the... Read more
Over at the NY Times Ross Douthat does the Kennedy(s) Story better than anyone has in the past week. Liberalism’s most important legislator probably merited a more extended send-off than his sister. But there’s a sense in which his life’s work and Eunice’s deserve to be remembered together — for what their legacies had in common, and for what ultimately separated them. What the siblings shared — in addition to the grace, rare among Kennedys, of a ripe old age... Read more
Wow, a great photo via the Crescat, who recounts the story she found here and marvels at “the stuff priests are made of”: 4 June 1962. Navy chaplain Luis Padillo was giving last rites to dying soldiers as sniper fire surrounded him. A wounded soldier pulled himself up by clinging to the priest’s cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them. Hector Rondón Lovera, who had to lie flat to avoid getting shot, later said that he was unsure... Read more
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