Yesterday, I was going on about the Sun. Today, Robert Krulwich, of NPR’s science desk, has a very interesting piece up today on a blog that is written and illustrated by him. It’s called, Our Very Normal Solar System Isn’t Normal Anymore. (more…) Read more
This note popped into my “in basket” this afternoon. It’s from a reader, whose identity I’ve scrubbed, and it explains why events like what happened in the Archdiocese of Newark, after the travail for more than a decade following the Long Lent of 2002, are so damaging to the Body of Christ. Read it and weep. (more…) Read more
I don’t know, but it’s completely out of our hands. Maddening, isn’t it? (more…) Read more
Before there was @Pontifex on Twitter, there was Father Pontifex, making music with the Spoken Word. (more…) Read more
Show of hands, how many of you have you heard your parish priest mention the Devil in a homily? Pope Francis doesn’t seem self conscious, or embarrassed, about doing so. This excerpt is from yesterday’s Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae, (more…) Read more
The tremors out of the Archdiocese of Newark can still be felt. The latest news concerns the termination of lay youth ministers, Michael and Amy Lenehan, longtime friends of Fr. Fugee Below is a copy of Bishop O’Connell’s e-mail to priests dated yesterday afternoon announcing the above developments. (more…) Read more
What could I possibly have seen that leads me to make such a conclusion? Data from a study done by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), shared by the folks over at CARA (the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate). That’s where the neat graph above comes from. (more…) Read more
You know, for when your kids roll their eyes when it’s time for you to hone them. (more…) Read more
It’s pretty simple. Because everyone lost. (more…) Read more
Effective immediately. The news came earlier this evening, via The Star-Ledger’s Mark Mueller, The Roman Catholic priest at the center of a public furor enveloping Newark Archbishop John J. Myers has resigned from ministry, a spokesman for the archdiocese said tonight. (more…) Read more
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