Deprived of his insider position, George Weigel slowly loses his mind

Let me start this little rant by admitting that I haven't read Caritas in Veritate, I will read it but it's continuing absence in book form and my recent inability to sit down and read anything might mean that I don't read it for some time. Still, having read both Rerum Novarum ( Read more... )

( How I spent my weekend )

Way to hold out ten years just to do what everybody else is already doingI'm not one of those people who is agitating for opening all the orders to women or anything, but this is something that was approved by the Vatican more than 10 years ago and they should be following that. I went to college in the Diocese of Arlington, at a Catholic ( Read more... )

I just finished this book that I've been reading, Gladius Sanctus by Stephen Kiss, and I must say that I would not recommend it to anybody to read. The grammar and spelling are attrocious, his portrayal of women is rather questionable (they're all bisexual, promiscuous, and power-hungry), and his writing style is neither gripping nor (in certain ( Read more... )

This could either be fairly good or horribly bad.My guess is that the CBS one will be somewhat more flattering than the ABC one, since it was blessed by the Vatican, and that the ABC one will probably include a lot of commentary by people like Spong who will talk about how anachronistic Catholicism is and how JPII was a dinosaur who should have ( Read more... )

( Yet another boring weekend...news ahead... )

I hate weekends when I don't get to do anything. Last weekend was so much more fun, this one was just a rained-out waste. Saturday I woke up early for no particular reason, I just didn't feel like sleeping all day. I did some grocery shopping and then went over to 12:10 Mass over at the Basilica. I always enjoy going to Mass over there, and the ( Read more... )

Apparently the white smoke has risen and the bells have been rung, and we have a new Pope. That was pretty quick, I wonder what that means. I guess they were pretty clear about who they wanted.

Well, last night was interesting to say the least. I got over to the hotel (Omni Shoreham) around 2:15, having walked up to Woodley from Dupont with one of my coworkers. Once we got there we set out to get everything organized and displayed for the silent auction, which was our part of the whole thing. We had pretty much everything set up and were ( Read more... )

( A heaping dose of sentimental Catholic stuff. Be forewarned. )