Advent Begins, Thank God On the First Sunday of Advent, David and I decorate the tree while Kristen takes the shot. She reminded me this evening when we were tree shopping that this is David’s second tree! Where does time go? He went with us last year to pick out the tree, though he didn’t […]

Here are some of our first looks at our new baby! The ultrasound was Friday, Nov. 22, early because there was some question about dates and … regardless, Kristen was right all along and the baby, quite active and looking great, is due in May. Though 14 weeks is a little early to determine gender, […]

Legalize Same-Sex Marriage for the Good of Catholic Families? Paul J. Griffiths, chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois, argues in October’s “Commonweal” that not only should faithful Catholics be able to support the concept of same-sex marriage, despite the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s pronouncement that “all Catholics are obliged […]

ABC News, Infotainment, Conspiracy Theories and Kooks There’s an interesting story in the New York Times today about the ABC News special in which reporter Elizabeth Vargas sets out to show that the old conspiracy theory about Jesus having a wife (Mary Magdalene of course) is true. The special is based on Dan Brown’s “Da […]