Monthly Archives: February 2007

恭喜发财 !Gongxi facai!Happy New Year! Today I am heading off to what I am sure will be a marvelous celebration hosted by the Chinese Ambassador to the Holy See.  I will give you a report later. 朱思道神父

I have closed the ASK FATHER Question Box (another of my internet projects) until further notice. The AFQB is in serious need of maintence, work which is beyond me right now both in regard to time and know how. This … Read More →

I heard from a commenter here in WDTPRS that the results of the 2006 Blog Awards were available. I had some difficulty getting to them on that website, so, in case you do also, here they are. I cannot list … Read More →

Here I learn over at Dappled Things about Black Saturns… According to a new theory, any black hole that pops out of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland might be surrounded by a black ring – forming a … Read More →

Someone gave me wondrous Oolong from Taiwan. A superb way to restart an afternoon. For a friend who is not here… "Although my neighbors are all barbarians, and you, you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups … Read More →

I went up the Caelian Hill yesterday with a friend for to visit the round basilica of Santo Stefano Rotondo.  I had not been in the building for some years and it was closed for restorations for quite a while.  … Read More →

Sometimes I will eschew supper here at the Domus in order to chew some slices of good things Italy has to offer.  For example, the other day a friend and I got some wonderful paper thin slices of San Daniele … Read More →

There have been constant interuptions of internet service today.  Sometimes when a head of state comes to Rome, … let’s just say that the free exchange of information here is somewhat… hampered.  Today the President of South Korea was in … Read More →

  Today is the feast of St. Onesimus. 1. Commemoratio beati Onesimi, quem sanctus Paulus Apostolus servum fugitivum et in vinculis utpote Christi in fide filium genuit, sicut ipse domino eius Philemoni scripsit. … The commemoration of St. Onesimus, whom, … Read More →

Today the Holy Father brought to a conclusion his teaching about the early workers in the Lord’s vinyard with a fascinating presentation about the women involved in the early Church. Among the various things he spoke about, and I recommend … Read More →

Here is another brief snapshot of where a few of you are as you come to visit the blog. Stevenage, Norfolk Hamburg Honolulu, Hawaii Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Hrvatski Leskovac, Grad ZagrebSingapore, Dakar Wegscheid, Salzburg Mohawk, Michigan London, Lambeth Black Diamond, Alberta Radeberg, Sachsen

The Holy Father’s Message for Lent was released today.  I was at the Press conference with S.E. Mons. Paul Josef Cordes, President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", who made the presentation along with others. The document was signed on … Read More →

Today the Holy Father’s Message for Lent will be released.  The Press Conference for the release will be with S.E. Mons. Paul Josef Cordes, President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum". One clerical wit here in Rome said, "Well, if … Read More →

You participants here help to make this blog what it is (which is a good thing…. I think).  Subsequently, I can say happily that we have been nominated in several categories in the Catholic Blog Awards for 2006.   The list … Read More →

Today is the feast of Sts. Saturninus and companions who died in North Africa in 304. By happy chance on my long Sunday afternoon walk yesterday I visited the Basilica of Sts. John and Paul.  There I happened to take … Read More →

Today’s Oxford English Dictionary Online Word of the Day is

Sometimes I check my stats to see where in the world people are when they visit the blog.  I mean that geographically, of course.  That doesn’t mean I don’t wonder about where they are ecclesiologically, psychologically….  But I digress. Today … Read More →