I’ll admit, the whole Pope-thing whizzed by so fast I did not com­ment, and dropped this thread so to recap on Pope-ery thoughts; I’m cau­tiously opti­mistic about this guy, he is set­ting the right tone, and while not tech­ni­cally a Euro­pean, an eth­nic Ital­ian from South Amer­ica is the per­fect com­pro­mise for a hide-bound church. ... III: Personhood.">more

I let work keep me away for too long, now I really need to step it up. I am hope­lessly fas­ci­nated by the drama; being a Catholic is much sim­i­lar to being a non-practicing Jew­ish per­son; hav­ing been raised in it, I may agree with much of the out­side crit­i­cism, but at some point the ... II : Convocation">more

Ok, so I’m hijack­ing my blog to talk­ing all things Catholic, at least until the white smoke flut­ters outta that chim­ney in Rome. Why? So many reasons… To talk about the state of Amer­i­can Catholi­cism from the per­spec­tive of of a long-gone, well-past-lapsed Catholic. Hav­ing watched Mea Max­ima Culpa, and other doc­u­men­taries about the Irish scan­dal, ... BAD Catholic Starts Here, Today!">more

I was delib­er­ately quiet for the week­end. I wanted to think, and to mourn for those lost in New­town CT. Yet my ini­tial polit­i­cal thoughts have held up for 48 hours, so here goes… We need to move quickly on some­thing mean­ing­ful to address this vio­lence. The NRA has not got­ten beat in this town since…when? the ... more