Category: Odds & Ends

Bill White has announced a new blog about homeschooling, and a strange new goal in his personal life.

It’s gotta be tough for some of these fringe devotional movements: sometimes a little twist in the story can bring it all to an end. Sometimes all it takes is the exposure of a misdeed, a heresy, a disobedience, and the group’s following may evaporate very quickly.
How fragile is it all when the devotion is centered around a physical object: a rainbow-colored window in a bank building?
The era of Our Lady of Clearwater seems to have ended the night of February 29:

Pat Tillman, a football player who gave up a $9 million contract to join the Army Rangers, was killed by thugs in Afghanistan. Instead of living the self-indulgent, pampered life of a sports star, he chose to risk death thousands of miles from home. I stand in awe of him.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
(John 15:13)
Grant them eternal rest, O Lord;
and let light perpetual shine upon them.
(Mass for the Dead)

If you didn’t get to contribute to the Peter’s Pence Collection this year, it’s not too late.

I have never used the words “What-not” in conversation.