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February 16, 2011

Lenten Reading: Jesus and Jewish Roots of the Eucharist

It's that time of the year again. As Ash Wednesday approaches (it's later than usual...

February 07, 2011

Heather King; the Anti-Anne Rice – UPDATED

Last summer, when Anne Rice loudly announced that she was "quitting" Christianity but not Christ,...

January 2011

January 14, 2011

Stars and the Excess of Clarity

Spent some time stargazing a while back, when I couldn’t sleep. No telescope, just the...

January 07, 2011

Aftershock; Haiti, Hardship, Help & Hope

After Shock I wrote recently again about the neverending suffering of Haiti, and the remarkable...

December 2010

December 20, 2010

"Star Over Bethlehem"

Julie Davis of Happy Catholic has a Christmas treat from an unexpected source: Agatha Christie!...

December 13, 2010

Revelation of the Magi; What We Have Always Known

In recommending Brent Landau's Revelation of the Magi to others, I have called it "a...

December 08, 2010

And now…Bernadette! And Adele!

Father James Martin graciously permits Patheos to excerpt a chapter of his wonderful book My...

November 2010

November 22, 2010

Communion; Hand or Mouth?

Yesterday at Mass, my husband noticed that on the floor of our pew, by our...

November 22, 2010

123 Meme Revisited

A while back we had a little fun with the 123 Meme, which works as...

November 15, 2010

October 2010

October 28, 2010

The "Safe Haven" of Grace

I like this piece by Tony Rossi, over at Patheos, about Nicholas Sparks, author of...

October 25, 2010

A Weekend of Attention

A sort of happy synchronicity regarding this book. Julie Davis from Happy Catholic (who reviews...

October 14, 2010

Full of Grace; a Gorgeous & Glorious Book

A while back I received a review galley of Judith Dupre's upcoming book, Full of...

September 2010

September 21, 2010

Benedict's UK Triumph Ignored in US

Shamelessly cribbed from Lucianne.com Deacon Greg, who rarely has time to really sit down and...

September 15, 2010

A Creche, B-16 & Your Opinion, Please

I tease you with a splendid picture (they get a little fuzzy with cropping/shrinking) from...

August 2010

August 26, 2010

Beatifying Newman, Neri & More

One of the books I'll be trying to read while in Rome is John Henry...

August 08, 2010

Flannery O' Connor Knew Me

"She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody...

August 04, 2010

Hitchens; Hairless, Hale & Hearty – UPDATED

Hitchens, July 2010 / Photo by John Huba Chirstopher Hitchens, in the midsts of a...

July 2010

July 27, 2010

Look What I Just Found! -UPDATED

Needing to brush up on some things before submitting to an interview tomorrow, I came...

July 21, 2010

Flannery, Via Julie – UPDATE

I recently wrote elsewhere that Happy Catholic is run by a woman who seems to...

July 21, 2010

Sherrod should write a book- UPDATED

The Pool of Bethesda, 1645, Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot Shirley Sherrod says she is not certain...

June 2010

June 08, 2010

The Brothers Karamazov

". . . but it seemed to me that Alyosha was even more of a...

June 01, 2010

June 1st Resolution; ora AT labora – UPDATED

The motto of the Benedictines is ora et labora; pray and work. In his Holy...

May 2010

May 07, 2010

Retreat Day Rerun

From September 2009 Mariette in Ecstasy And Christ still sends me roses. We try to...

May 03, 2010

"I forgive the man who raped me…"

Recently, writing about the terrible scandals of the church and the need for the hierarchy...

March 2010

March 29, 2010

Quote of the Day

Appropos of nothing, except I liked it: "...sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it...

March 24, 2010

The Dark Light of Time, Memory & Meaning

"Nature abhors a vacuum." Had a conversation with young atheist who has trouble accepting that...

March 17, 2010

"Fear is useless, what is needed is trust."

Pondering the possibility of America being "remade" under the auspices of a Health Care Non-Vote-Deeming,...

March 13, 2010

Pratchett from 2004: “Too Big to Fail”

It's not prophecy. It's not a fine or proved economic theorem. It's not even life...

March 10, 2010

Random Lenten Thoughts – UPDATED

I love spending time going through my various "Quotations" books. I have Bartlett's,of course, and...