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The Mysterious Mind of My Granddaughter

By Adam Minihan | June 18, 2014

“Now look here, egg. You can’t talk.” – Lucy the Cuteness, to her breakfast

The sort of thing bureaucrats with nothing to do find to worry about…

By Adam Minihan | June 18, 2014

…is fretting over gender differences in hurricane names.

Hi. I’m 12. This is funny.

By Adam Minihan | June 18, 2014

Fr. Angelo Mary Geiger on Keeping Secrets…

By Adam Minihan | June 17, 2014

blogging, and anonymity. I realize that it’s perfectly legit to write on the web under a handle and have, on rare occasions, done so myself for prudential reason. But mostly I have always had a scruple against it. I just feel funny writing things if I don’t have the guts to sign my name to…

Vernacular Masses Before the Vatican Council…

By Adam Minihan | June 17, 2014

…I mean the First Vatican Council. Over on Facebook, somebody was going on about the sadness of not having all the liturgies in the world in a single language. Several people pointed out that the Mass has never been in a single language and that those who celebrate it in Slavonic or any of the…

Food for Thought

By Adam Minihan | June 17, 2014

The Certainly-Not-Fake-Named Reynaldo Pedregon writes:

By Adam Minihan | June 17, 2014

Dear Potential Partner, We are facilitating for a private investor who is facing crises in his country. He urgently wants to relocate and invest his funds in a long-term business venture in your country/company under your supervision. The amount available for the investment is 35m euros( Thirty Five Million Euros). My Client is willing to…

Weird Books

By Adam Minihan | June 17, 2014

A friend who used to run the Logos Bookstore here in Seattle sends along this piece on bizarre books that people actually wrote (some of which he remembers selling). Here are just a few samples. There’s a lot more where they came from:  

“Navigating the New Evangelization”: A Book Review

By Adam Minihan | June 16, 2014

Father Raniero Cantalamessa’s latest book Navigating the New Evangelization provides a valuable addition to a growing body of books of the subject of evangelization in the church today. The book is a very readable compilation of teachings which Father Cantalamessa delivered to the Papal Household on the subject of evangelization during Advent 2010 and 2011. It…

Prayer Request

By Adam Minihan | June 16, 2014

A reader writes: After over a year of struggling with lung cancer my grandfather passed away. Please, could you pray for my grandfather and my grandmother, who helped him throughout his illness? And thank you and your readers for praying for them last year and the year before. Thank you, and God bless! Father, may…