The Girl Who Was Saturday

For the most part, these Monday digests are thoughts about the homily of the day before.   However, since yesterday’s Gospel was on the ...

I once heard a solid old Jesuit preach a homilette—one of those small sermons that crops up right after the prayers of the faithful or just...

It is a point I have made before , but one which, I think, bears repeating; and it came up again in my reading tonight. "We all know ...

The Tuesday, July 3 edition of NPR’s “All Things Considered” celebrated the anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae with the headline “...

The first act of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Patience , among its many absurdities, includes the following quatrain, sung by a bevy o...

Not too long ago the   New Yorker   published a piece on court-appointed “guardians” who steal from the elderly (“ How the Elderly Lose The...

These are a few highlights from the past week’s reading. *                       *                       * The great S. Thomas is ...

“Je suis Charlie Hebdo,” said the signs.   Terrorism is indeed a terrible thing, and understandably calls out sentiments of solidarity....