… Via Fr. Z, Vatican introduces new security measure in St Peter’s Square. Vatican officials today are introducing a new measure to keep St Peter’s Square clear of marauding birds. A team in the Swiss Guards has been assigned the task of supervising a Sharris Hawk, [sic – should read Harris’s Hawk] which will be brought out during the Weekly Audiences and the Angelus – on Wednesdays and Sundays. You know, to protect them from all those viscous crow and... Read more
… Last night, according to the Charlotte Observer, nearly 1,000 people showed up at Charlotte Catholic High School’s parent meeting to “air complaints” regarding the talk given by Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel. The event was closed to the media and supposed to be for currently enrolled students and their parents only. Though the Observer and local TV stations were told to leave the campus during the meeting, a reporter from the Catholic News Herald, the diocese’s newspaper, was allowed in... Read more
… This past Friday news broke about a local Catholic high school here in Charlotte, NC. Apparently the students at Charlotte Catholic High School had a bit of a problem with a nun teaching *gasp* Catholic doctrine. Psst. It’s a Catholic school. Says so right in the name. From the Catholic News Herald, CHARLOTTE — An online petition started by a student at Charlotte Catholic High School is questioning the views of a speaker at a recent assembly who spoke... Read more
… Shattering the dreams of archaeologist everywhere, Two historians claim the search for the Holy Grail is over. The famous cup used by Jesus Christ during the Last Supper was identified in a book written by Margarita Torres Jose Manuel Ortega del Rio, titled “Kings of the Grail” and published last week, as the jewel-encrusted goblet on display at the San Isidro Basilica in the northwestern Spanish city of Leon. [H/T Deacon’s Bench] If ya ask me, the whole thing... Read more
… That’s it. That’s all I got. Unicorns poop magic rainbows. For ten days I’ve been unable to write a single thing. Ten days! Ten long, miserable days of nothing. Desperate times calling for desperate measure, I locked myself in my bedroom till I have written something of worth. I’ve been here 5 hours 12 minutes and 7 second. Eight seconds. Nine seconds. Like any normal person locked in a room with a computer and a stalled creative process… I... Read more
… This past Sunday morning was abysmal. Cold, grey, and rainy. The kind of morning that begs for sleeping late. I laid there for awhile trying to will myself to get up out of bed and push past the beginnings of a migraine. I had almost convinced myself that this little act of willful laziness was completely harmless and perfectly understandable. It was a headache, for crying out loud. Can’t go to mass with a headache. And then I remembered... Read more
It’s a robot. Made of Legos. Solving a Rubik’s Cube. Read more
H/T Gretchen at She Thomist. Read more
Andrea Previtali, the Transfiguration Oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan From today’s Gospel reading… MT 17:1-9 Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with him. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If... Read more
… I am often amused by the question “how do you do it alone?” The answer is, I don’t. I have my faith, family, and friends that help me get through the more difficult and overwhelming times. Same as anybody else. It’s funny how people assume just because you aren’t married you are alone. On the flip side of that coin is the inaccurate assumption made by single people that married individuals are immune to loneliness. The truth no one... Read more
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