Monthly Archives: March 2009

I think there should be an app for creating and sending SMSs on an iPhone using Morse code so that they will still be text when the other person gets them. Someone should clasp this Morse idea to their bosom … Read More →

What books do you think absolutely must be read, preferably before graduating from High School, or at least college… or before death? Maybe I can eventually turn this into a POLL.  I will start with some books as they occur … Read More →

I found this on The Catholic Thing.   Context: Archbp. Burke recently made clear statements in an interview about pro-abortion Catholic politicians and Holy Communion. It is written by Austin Ruse, "President of the New York and Washington, D.C.-based Catholic Family … Read More →

People are writing to ask if I have heard anything about a new Missale Romanum which would include both uses of the Roman Rite and also shift elements of the Novus Ordo toward the older form. Yes.  I have heard … Read More →

I have often thought that we could use a new, better, edition in English of the Documents of Vatican II.  We need a better translation with a good commentary, through a hermeneutic of continuity. A reader sent this: Proposed New … Read More →

I received word that His Excellency Most Reverend Thomas Olmstead, Bishop of Phoenix, wrote an e-mail to the President of the University of Notre Shame, Fr. Jenkins, to remind him of the USCCB position on giving people who defy fundamental … Read More →

Pope Benedict in his Letter to bishops about the lifting of the SSPX excommunications, stressed how they dropped the ball on the internet and how the Holy See had to make better use of this important tool. I was alerted … Read More →

There is enough terrible new for us to gnash and fret about. How about some of your good news?