Icon of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Available Here Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, one of my favorite feasts, because Carmelites are beautiful, beautiful people, and because someone I love very much celebrates a birthday on this feastday! From time to time, on this site, we check in with our Carmelite friends. Of course, first and foremost, we know that the Carmelite Monks are the brilliant, bald chappies who provide us with the world’s... Read more
The oddest title I’ve ever posted! Thanks to all of you who offered prayers for Buster; nothing humbles me more than knowing that perfect strangers are taking the time to pray for my family members. God bless you. Read more
I see I was not the only one watching last night’s All-Star Game who wondered if David Axelrod had negotiated the bizarre angle (there is no other word for it, if you’re a baseball-watching fan) used to showcase President Barack Obama’s ceremonial “first pitch.” I have never seen a president throw a pitch, before, where the angle left out the catcher at the plate. Yes, I had to wonder if the shot was planned that way, if the White House... Read more
Sorry for the silence. The afternoon was spent with doctors and radiologists, and tomorrow we find out whether Buster has a hernia. I got to do some reading as I sat around waiting or keeping Buster company, but it was very disheartening to learn that blaring televisions broadcasting insipid game shows and screeching talkfests are more the rule than the exception in medical offices, these days. What I noticed was that the patients and family members in the waiting room... Read more
I know it must seem like I’m being lazy and not attending to my work over here; it’s not that. I just can’t seem to settle in and focus on much. The news feels like it’s all coming in too fast to process, the congress is passing mammoth bills it can’t be bothered to read. As the deficit tops ONE TRILLION DOLLARS for the first time, ever, the president is standing at ship’s helm, a deep gouge in his hull,... Read more
(Originally posted July 09, 2009; lost in transit; recaptured (incomplete) April 09, 2012) The release today of Pope Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, (“Charity in Truth”) completes the faith, hope and love trifecta begun with Deus Caritas Est (“God is Love”) and Spe salvi (“Saved by Hope”). I confess that, unlike many of my gifted friends, associates and intellectual betters, I have not yet finished reading Caritas in Veritate. Even so, I have (unsurprisingly) managed to form an... Read more
Had enough of it. Obama wanting to regulate our Tylenol, and these spoiled children in charge – it’s all driven me over the edge. America was never supposed to be an adolescent-run, over-managed nanny state giving support to despots while backhanding democratic allies and treating elected officials (and their wives) like royalty. But that seems to be where we are headed. Everything will still be there tomorrow, but I’m sick to death of all of it, today. Fr. Mabura knows.... Read more
“If we can’t be in charge in perpetuity, we won’t play.” Said it before and will say it again. 14 year olds. Even worse: A California Democrat says free speech? That’s terrorism! We have children running everything. Read more
I wrote the other day about how easily and thoughtlessly we give ourselves away, and many in the comments section focused on one of my examples, that of bloggers “giving away” their writing. Readers were very kind but I did wonder a little whether all the focus on the “money” part of the piece was because money is tangible and we can all relate, or if I’d simply not written a balanced-enough piece. When I wrote about “blogging for free,”... Read more
It’s a step up! Next, I suppose, after two verifiable miracles, it can become “Saintly” TV. Talking, of course, about New Evangelization Television, out of the Diocese of Brooklyn, which Old Scratch tried to stop but could not, and which “actually really is good TV”! While helping out for a few episodes of In the Arena I got to see the new studios in various stages of construction, and now they are finally operating; the Monsignor Michael Dempsey Studio (and... Read more
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