10:10 Tin roof. Rusted. Read more

GODSTUFF PASSING OVER THE NARROW PLACES (AND PASS THE MATZO, TOO) Somehow, instinctively perhaps, this year I sensed it was time for Passover before I checked the calendar. The most significant clue was that I had almost run out of matzo. The two Manischiewitz boxes I bought the week after Passover last year were nearly empty, and what remained was on the far side of stale. In 2007, I spent all of Passover with Rabbi Allen Secher, his wife, Ina,... Read more

11:11 Happy happy happy … Read more

You HAVE to read this It’s not often that we here at GGHQ go apey over a new author. And it’s even rarer still when we fall head over heels in love. So, with that in mind, STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND GO GET THIS BOOK: Surviving Nashville by Stacy Barton Stacy’s slim volume is a collection of Southern-accented short stories that are at once elegant, heartbreaking, witty and deeply, profoundly faithful. As we read Surviving Nashville, which, at 105... Read more

11:11 That’s me in the corner. Read more

Shit. Clinton wins Pennsylvania, CNN projects 9:00 PM CST PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton will win the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, CNN projects based on early returns. With about a quarter of precincts reporting, she was leading Barack Obama 54-46 percent. Clinton will pick up a majority of the state’s 158 delegates. Going into Tuesday’s contest, Obama led in the delegate count — 1,648 to 1,504, according to CNN estimates. He also led in the popular vote and the... Read more

GODSTUFF MORE GERMAN SHEPHERD THAN ROTTWEILER Three years and a few days ago, I was standing in the middle of St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, eating a cone of hazelnut gelato when smoke began to appear from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel. It was a little before 6 p.m., if memory serves, and more than an hour before we were expecting to see the last smoke signal of the day, telling the outside world how the cardinals, meeting... Read more

11:11 On my mind … in a lifetime. Read more

The funniest priest I know Father Jim Martin — author, theologian, king of all media and my favorite Jesuit — will be on “The Colbert Report” tonite on Comedy Central. Top of the hour. Don’t miss it. Here was Jim’s last visit with Mr. Colbert: Read more

Rippling Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,If your cup is full may it be again,Let it be known there is a fountain,That was not made by the hands of men. Read more