So saith NPR: Catholic Church Joins Blogosphere; Pope Urges Priests To Blog Welcome, Catholics! I’ve never understood why you guys haven’t caught on to the whole blogging thing before, but we’re certainly glad to have you and are looking forward to seeing what you can do with this . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, as promised I’m going to try to talk about my upcoming oral final exam, an Old Testament homily for my late-vocations class that I’m taking. We were given the task of selecting a OT lection (reading section from the liturgical rubrics) and give an approximately 10 minute homily on . . . . Continue Reading »
A disciple and companion of St. Paul to whom the great saint addressed one of his letters. Paul referred to Titus as “my true child in our common faith”. Not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, he was noted in Galatians where Paul writes of journeying to Jerusalem with Barnabas, . . . . Continue Reading »
The news today is that Pope Benedict XVI is calling on priests to enter the blogosphere and upload their ministry. The official statement is “The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word.”Evangel readers probably don’t need much . . . . Continue Reading »
The expansion of the GOP’s “Big Tent” to include ideas that social convervatives find distasteful is inevitable in today’s political climate. But I never would have suspected that Republican politicians would feel comfortable enough to champion themes and techniques that are . . . . Continue Reading »
Some good ones are to be found in the latest issue of Perspectives on Political Science. . . . . Continue Reading »
More me thinking about the state of education in America through the historical and theoretical sources of our present discontent: The central object of Lockean education, the rational control of nature, begins with the defective natural constitution that originally plagues all children, . . . . Continue Reading »
Have you noticed that all the Democratic attorneys general who’ve announced they are not running for Congress this year? The latest: Beau Biden in Delaware. You know it’s a bad year for a party when a state attorney general isn’t trying to get a better job. . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been trying to not post about global warming today, but it has been hard. Over the last several months, the entire facade of the “scientific consensus” has been exposed as more about politics than science. And in the wake of NASA’s claim that the last decade was . . . . Continue Reading »
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