Real Black Holes and Fantasy Budgets
We now have our first actual photographic image of a black hole, those theoretical entities first posited in a rudimentary way by John Michell...
The future of Catholicism
When a publisher telephones and asks for a new book, written quickly, there is only one response: a high- pitched, only partly controlled “yes.”...
Politics, Piggery and Doing One’s Duty
As the midterms make clear, the U.S. continues its continental divide, between the (ironically) red Republicans and the blue Democrats, with the former under...
Three Saints for One
Today is a rarity in our liturgical calendar, as we celebrate no less than three saints, each of them optional memorials: In order of...
Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans
Juditha Triumphans is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi, the only one of four he is known to have written which survived. Its date of...
Lancing the Wound of Sin
“Always remember that God sees everything.” - Padre Pio
My husband used to be a biker—not the Harley kind, but the bicycle kind. He used...
A magical scarf
Walking to my flat late Friday afternoon after a chaotic morning, I was confronted with the fact that I hadn’t yet had lunch. I...
Moving Days
As my family travels, we meet quite a few people who ask us things like, “Where is your favorite place to go?” (I have...
How Do We Know Christ Really Lived?
Every now and then we hear in various and sundry places one of the greatest blasphemies of them all: that Jesus never really lived...
My Fist Pumping Pope
I know everyone’s doing it, but I need to talk about the Pope. I don’t want to talk about conspiracy theories. I don’t want...
