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I am horrendously inconsistent at praying novenas; in over eight years as a Catholic, I don’t think I’ve successfully completed even one. (I even managed to mess up a “speed novena” to the Holy Infant of Prague which is prayed every hour for nine hours.) Perhaps this is just one of the unique spiritual [...]

The American Library Association’s Tech Source blog has an active discussion of two libraries that have opened new branches that are quite literally like bookstores — not just in their comfy chairs and attached coffee shops, but in the arrangement of the books. They shelve by the BISAC codes, the “subject headings” you see on [...]

Scot McKnight’s new book The Real Mary is intriguing and ultimately frustrating read, one I highly recommend. McKnight attempts in this book to delineate only what can be known from Scripture regarding Mary, and to examine the further claims of the Catholic tradition regarding her in the most charitable light he can muster. And he [...]

D’oh! Why did it take Reflections of a Paralytic to gather this important contact information? Never mind, he did, and that’s the beauty of the blogosphere. Together, we get a lot accomplished.
ACCENT Speech Bureau
300-1 JWRU, Room 306
P.O. Box 118505
Gainesville, FL 32611-8505
Tel: 352-392-1665 ext. 306
Fax: 352-392-8072
Website: http://www.sg.ufl.edu/accent
Email: accent@sg.ufl.edu
Press/Upcoming Show Information: 352-392-1665 ext. 411
J. Bernard Machen
President of [...]

It has always been one of my favorite Bible stories. Esther is the beautiful young queen with an important secret; her identity as one of the conquered Jews. Then vain and power-hungry Haman tricks the king into issuing a decree that all the Jews must be killed. Esther faces a choice: hide behind her new [...]

The University of Florida is inviting Jack Kevorkian to speak at the University as part of its “Access” speakers series. The series features a variety of speakers of varying degrees of fame and notoriety; in recent years they’ve hosted porn star Ron Jeremy, Ann Coulter, filmmaker Michael Moore, and KISS performer Gene Simmons. So as [...]

I was tagged by Wheelie Catholic for this meme. It’s my first official meme-tagging by name… I’m so proud!
Here we go:
1. My 18th birthday party was a surprise party — held in one of the elevators of my dorm.
2. I was a regional poster child for Easter Seals; one of their first (and last) adolescent [...]

Mark Shea has suggested that the two stages of reckless application of technology are “What Could it Hurt?”and “How Were We Supposed to Know?” Below is a story that should move us at once from the first position, to the second, to “Never Again!”
Many disability activists were appalled to discover details about the medically-approved surgical [...]

North Carolina is just a little colder and darker today — well, so is everywhere. Cartoonist Doug Marlette has died in an automobile crash.
If you don’t know Marlette’s strip Kudzu, please go see it now. I don’t always agree with Rev. Will B. Dunn, but he’s a closer exemplar of the Southern preachers I’ve [...]

Evan Almighty is not a great movie. But it’s not the bomb most critics are claiming it is, either And there are elements of sound Catholic theology among the hit-in-the-pants-with-a-board physical comedy and the cartoony characters.
Congressman Evan Baxter has won office on a platform to change the world; but when God (played by Morgan Freeman) [...]