Courtesy of Loyola Books Rocco has links that lead you to Loyola Press’ happy marketing push in Chicago which I wrote about here. Some of the banners folks will read as they drive through the Loop: St. Joseph Says Construction Takes Patience. St. Jude Knows an Alternate Route. St. Joan of Arc says Keep Cool. St. Ignatius Suggests Mass Transit. St. Anthony Offers Roadside Assistance. Good news for a book about which I cannot sing enough praise. Read more
Not my state, but I’m so tired of this sort of “smear over substance” politicking that it will be a satisfying donation. Read more
UPDATE: The new line from folks in the media is, what secret? Everyone knew this!. Which makes one ask, then why was it a front page story???? The perfidy and folly of the NY Times has spooked the “international community”. But they didn’t do any harm to the program, or anything. Also read scathing and brilliant satire on the NYTimes editorial decisions. End Update. Ed Morrissey gives us a heads up to an interview between Thomas Kean, the 9/11 Commission... Read more
In scanning some conservative forums, I am seeing a lot of “Bush needs to prosecute the NY Times and if he does not, then he’s a wimpdisappointmentblah-blah-blah” type stuff. Please. Even the normally level-headed James Pinkerton is calling Bush “yella” in 22pt balony italics and wondering why instant gratification is not possible. Look, it’s easy – and understandable – to want to mount a few obnoxious media heads to the wall, and it feels good to say “prosecute ’em.” But... Read more
Once upon a time environmentalists were sadly suggesting that the Iraqi wetlands, deliberately destroyed by Saddam Hussein, would ever come back. Big Lizard reports that they are quickly re-flourishing after the ouster of Hussein, although, as Sachi points out, the good news is – as usual – delivered with a “but” because good news and Iraq are not actually allowed to be reported without the “but.” Still, the news is heartening and I have covered it before. It is another... Read more
Brilliant. I wish I’d thought of it, it’s very clever and terribly, terribly offensive and politically incorrect. As is most good satire. You are warned. Greetings to all of my fans and pigeaters destined to have their flesh ripped to pieces in fiery rings of Hell! I met Tom Cruise at a party for Oprah and Ralph, and he seemed like a nice fellow. Short, but nice. He started to talk to me about thetans and I tuned him out.... Read more
This is sort of funny and sort of sad. Gerald at Closed Cafeteria has been called an “idiot of the Catholic blogosphere” by someone who wrote it in plural, so I assume there are more of us “idiots.” I will happily include myself in the category, because I know who I am! :-) Anyway, this fellow wrote: I’m ashamed that this guy considers himself some kind of paragon of Catholic orthodoxy. The site is actually quite entertaining when discusing anything... Read more
Sr. Kathleen Clare Lahl, OSB, makes her solemn vow When a Benedictine monastic of either sex makes solemn vows, one of the most moving parts of the ritual is when he or she stands before the altar of the Lord, arms upraised, and makes the triple “suscipe,” proclaiming three times, “Accept me, Lord, as you have promised, and I shall truly live…” It is an ancient formula and a tremendous moment. Here is a rather nice story of a nun... Read more
An email from a nail-bitten Global Warming True Believer challenged me to explain why I don’t believe in the inevitable terrors of Global Warming. This person wondered how, since I am not a scientist, I am not a sophisticate and I am – gasp – a rightwingnutjob, could I possibly speak credibly on the issue and why don’t I believe people like Al Gore and Bill Clinton – after all, they’ve never lied to me before, like that lying liar,... Read more
The rather prissy and disapproving tone of this article aside, one can only leap for joy to read that the pope has finally spoken out about the travesty that is Catholic Music in the 21st century. I am not kidding when I said that this past weekend I listened to a guitarist and a barely-competant keyboardist plunk away and howl and I prayed, “please, God in heaven, make it stop, make it stop!” Bad contemporary music was one of the... Read more
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