A conservative Catholic blog I read has been responding to the recent Vatican document --even though it came from way down the food chain-- ...

I began this blog at the end of 2006; Blogger only began keeping stats in 2010. My hits peaked in October 2014, with over 134,000 i...

The new header pic is a copy of the one from a new ExCathedra blog on another blogging service. I have been toying with the idea, after nine...

on the feast today of St Stephen the Protomartyr, just to let my readers know how much I have to suffer through in my knee rehab process at ...

Due to my 17-year sojourn in The Great (formerly) White North, today is not only the feast of St Stephen the First Martyr, on whose feast G...

At Christmastime I sometimes lay aside my Genghis Khan attitude toward the world and get sentimental and past-oriented, remembering all the ...

My dear friend L is a Unitarian Universalist minister. We have known each other for 30 years or so. She has remained mostly the liberal that...

Maybe segregation and Jim Crow laws in the South were not groundless evil hatred for no good reason. Do a little research on the increased...

Every bit of info I learn about the cosmos, the planet, etc. makes me wonder. And it would be a mistake to underestimate the role that compu...