DarwinCatholic

I've been running silent on the blog for the last week and a half because I'm going through my busy season at work: Fifteen hours ye...

We just watched Pope Benedict's last address -- possibly his last public appearance ever -- at Castel Gandolfo. He spoke for less than a...

One hears a certain amount about the high-profile papabile , but many of the other cardinals toil in obscurity. Our family been praying for ...

I've made a number of tactical parenting errors lately. Once, when Jack said, "Mom? Mom? Guess what, Mom? Guess what?", I thou...

I went to where we keep the old school papers and mementos and dug out my translation of No Exit, to see what I'd done with the first li...

1. Amy Welborn has been posting photos of some of her collection of vintage holy cards. Several of these are in French, basic enough th...

It would be more than a little presumptuous of me to claim to be any authority on writing based on one and a half NaNoWriMo drafts, but sinc...

Only Jack and Diana and I were home this evening, and Jack was confined to quarters for yet another incident involving poop and his underwea...

This last weekend's Wall Street Journal featured a review of anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon's new book Noble Savages: My Life Amon...

Helen Rittelmeyer at First Things says : The better I became at reading, the less I felt like talking about how much reading meant to me, ...

I never took a writing class, but even I'm familiar with the advice given to novice authors: "Show, don't tell." It guards...

"Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing left resembling ancien...

We begin Lent with one pope and can reasonably expect to reach Easter with a new one. One of the things that I've been very grateful ...

I was feeling pretty good about my decision to give up Facebook for Lent and to curtail my clicking around habit, and then the Pope announce...

Oh, this will be a Lent of many, many prayers. Pope Benedict will resign at the end of this month :  Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday th...

You know how some video is making the rounds, and all your friends are laughing at it, but you don't watch it because you don't have...

[revised] Last week the Catholic News Service published an interview with Father Wojciech Giertych, who serves as the pope's personal ...

I read a scary article the other day. You've probably run into similar ones. Kids these days, it informed me, are the porn generation ...

Bryan Caplan has a piece up at EconLog about the concept of the Big Break : People often hope for a "big break" - a large, durabl...

In keeping with the Monopoly theme, spot the connection in this video -- a recent favorite at our house. This makes me very hungry, but ...