Two Extraordinary Moments Where a Single Hand Gesture Tells the Whole Story
Twice today I have been very moved to come across gloriously beautiful — dare I say transcendent — images, where the poignancy of the moment was movingly emphasized by the small unconscious movement of...
View ArticleThe New School: Saving Education from Itself
The Federal Reserve also found that those with student loan debt were less likely to purchase houses or cars than those without student loans. This isn’t surprising. [Such debt] doesn’t encourage...
View ArticleThinking Outside the Box on Catholic Religious Education – UPDATED
Joanne McPortland posted only two pieces in all of January, but they were both hum-dingers. Yesterday, she dared to ask “What is really wrong with Catholic Religious Education” and then answered her...
View ArticleUnnecessary Roughness: How Dumb was Britt McHenry?
Saw people talking about this story on Twitter, and didn’t think much about it; some woman had a non-work-related rant and got suspended for a week from her job? I tossed off a joke about “wimmen being...
View ArticleSnowflake Students: “We’re Too Fragile To Be Educated!”
I’m out of here for the day — back to transcribing my book — but wanted to leave this here because it’s just horrific. Indoctrinating professors aside, can real teachers even dare to teach, anymore,...
View ArticleHaiti, Two Years Later
Currents, the daily Catholic news program produced by the Diocese of Brooklyn, observes the second anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake by interviewing Father Jean Moise Delva who, sadly,...
View Article2 Sexes, 60 Saints Each, 2 Questions – UPDATED
For reasons that are not worth going into— at least not yet — I have a question for the Catholic Moms and Dads out there — particularly those of you who home-school, or take main responsibility for...
View ArticleAre sensitivity and tolerance one-way streets? – UPDATED
I read this story over at Deacon Greg’s earlier today and it annoyed me but I was too busy to write about it. My first thought was, “so, you friends at Catholic high school have supported you as you...
View ArticleI love this book!
I haven’t read The Bible Tells Me So, yet; I never even heard about it until this week. But I love it, because Lisa Mladinich has written so entertainingly about it, and about the fellow behind it!...
View Article“A Very Safe Place” in a world so thin of them…
The value of a musical education begun during the early years of childhood has been well-documented; students who are exposed to musical instruction while young tend to do better in math and language...
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