Probably a mistake, but yesterday I took a look at the newspaper. There was an article about the problem of rape in the military. Another pi...

The Pope spoke sweetly at his last Wednesday Audience this morning. Of course we all watched and listened attentively. At lunch all the brot...

(Noticing that this post gets a little bit of search traffic, presumably from folks looking for actual, useful information (not that the pos...

I have discovered myself as a kind of laboratory for foreign-language learning.

Ever since I figured out that I was born on the second Sunday of Lent, the day has felt special to me. Not that it often falls on my actual ...

What a striking thing it is--in this curious moment in the pilgrimage of the Church Militant--to celebrate today the feast of the Chair of P...

Sometimes when I'm getting my little caffè macchiato out of the machine after Mass in the morning, I crack the joke that I drink caffè m...