Title Varies Slightly

I had my Lent somewhat planned out I had certain things I was giving up and other things I was adding on. (My behaviorist training as a special ed teacher leads me never to try to wipe out a behavior without adding an incompatible one.)
But you know, “If you want to make God laugh, tell [...]

Our homily this past weekend was fascinating, but uncomfortable. Father pointed out that heaven will be a kind of eternal liturgy.
“That’s going to be hard on those of you for whom an hour is now too long to pray,” he said. Ow! I was wondering whether my pastor might have been inspired by the [...]

Leo the Great of A Grain of Wheat has this interesting post about work.
I find connecting my faith to my work extremely difficult. There is, in fact, a Catholic Library Association, but I haven’t found much in its materials that articulates of distinctive features of Catholic librarianship. Is there such a thing as a [...]

Almost everyone has probably been through it… the first few days on a new job, when you’re taken around and introduced as the new “Fred,” where “Fred” is the name of the person who had the job before you. Now, perhaps Fred is a total mystery to you, of whom you can only catch glimpses [...]

Today, some news agencies are publishing family reports that Cho Seung-Hui had been diagnosed with autism as a child.
So now, some people have found the peg on which they will hang the whole explanation of his anger, the shootings, the death. We now try to explain great evils in medical or sociological terms, and here [...]

We all are, I suppose.
Even for those not directly involved, the effects of the shooting will endure. Pray for healing, and as best you can, pray also for the shooter, who is in the hands of God.
Events like these — (and how sad it is that I can actually write “events like these”!) underscore the [...]

This Sunday is the Second Sunday of Easter; Divine Mercy Sunday; and Yom ha-Shoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today, I received through e-mail this remarkable recording. From the narrator’s voice at the beginning, I can tell this clip was broadcast on a National Public Radio program.I cannot find it there, though, and so [...]

This brilliant analysis from Big Arm Woman is an illustration of how ugly conversations can become on the Internet. I hate how shallow and vicious people can be when they are speaking about strangers.
I love Big Arm Woman. She is a marshmallow in a cynic mask.

I love being in parishes with an RCIA program — but I have some regrets. One of them is that every Lent, you hear the alternate Gospels for the Scrutinies, rather than the scheduled readings. And so, yesterday, I heard about Lazarus, Mary, and Martha, and that was wonderful.
But I didn’t get to hear the [...]

You do read Wheelie Catholic every day, right? So you have likely seen this post from Country of the Blind.
I wasn’t actually surprised to see this, since I have a tangential connection to the Deaf community, and have spent a little time at Gallaudet University, the capital of Deaf culture. Disappointed, but not surprised.
The Deaf [...]