Month April 2007
Several months ago I received a letter from Yale University asking me to fill out a questionnaire explaining why I didn’t attend my 15 year reunion since there was a very low turnout from my class. If anyone at the… Continue Reading →
My family and I go to a diner most Sundays after church. It’s our big event of the week and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Recently, two women sitting at an adjacent table engaged in a lengthy conversation about… Continue Reading →
Father Z. is reporting that Il Tempo says the the long awaited MP will be issued next Monday, April 16 (the Pope’s 80th Birthday). No confirmation yet… Here is Father Z.’s translation of the Il Tempo Article The long-awaited Motu… Continue Reading →
I am quite used to Christianity being attacked. So it should not be a surprise that The New Yorker magazine attacked Pope Benedict last week. But this latest salvo in the culture war from writer Jane Kramer is such an… Continue Reading →
My wife and I usually tag-team mass on Sunday. One of us goes to Mass early—and by early I mean 10:30 a.m.—and the other stays home with the four knuckleheads (children). Then we switch. The other spouse goes to the… Continue Reading →
Patrick wrote the other day that he was ungrateful for the “House” episode focused on abortion. Lifenews.com has a slightly different take on the episode.
Fra Angelico-The ResurrectionHave a blessed Easter.
These are some of the pictures taken yesterday on Good Friday at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Island in Eastport, NY. If I didn’t have a wicked slice, I could hit a golf ball from my backyard to… Continue Reading →
I love incense. I’m a big fan. I remember as an altar boy processing through the aisles and thinking this is what heaven smells like. (I would also bang the communion plate into my friend’s Adam’s apples so don’t think… Continue Reading →
Global Warming Meltdown
An article on BBC news is reporting the Sunspot activity is at a 1,000 year high. Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich used ice cores from Greenland to construct a picture of our star’s activity in the… Continue Reading →