It Was Practically a Foregone Conclusion That some "Catholic" college president would write something like this. Link courtesty of Mark Shea, who responds inimitably. My advice to Rev. Stephen V.....

Who'da Thunk It! Somebody likes my poetry: “E. L. Core is a gifted poet: See for yourself here.” Thank you, Mark Sullivan.

Online Uprising! A long and very good article in American Journalism Review, June 2002, including this: Obviously, it's easy to waste an appalling amount of time in Blogland. But I....

Great Pictures Wait till you see the photos for next week's The View from the Core! Pictures from this year's May Day ceremony at my high-school alma mater. I just....

The Eve of June One of my poems is 12 years old today. The Eve of June

Russ Reeves to the Rescue Both Amy Welborn and Eve Tushnet have posted a link to a Gary Wills hatchet-job on Philip Jenkins. (I say "a Gary Wills hatchet-job on....

Veritas and The Bomb Chris Burgwald posted some remarks on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including this: The fact of the matter is this: if we consider the moral....

Review of Goodbye, Good Men A very interesting review of Michael Rose's new book, by a priest of the Kalamazoo diocese who knows some of the individuals interviewed for the....

We Had Better Pray For peace between Pakistan and India. From the Sacramentary of the Roman Missal, the opening prayer from one of the Masses for Peace and Justice: God....

But We Still Need Documentation I have been given conflicting accounts of the vows taken by Benedictine monks: one reader, who had been in temporary vows himself, says they do....

We Have Some Documentation! Re: whether Benedictine monk Rembert Weakland would have had to get a dispensation from a vow of poverty to hold diocesan properties. A reader has informed....

If I Could Write Like Jonah, I Would Be a Writer I have to admire a writer who makes me bust out laughing while discussing a very serious topic, and....

Legibility is Definitely a Plus One of my correspondents, who had complained about the typeface being difficult to read, has written to say that the new template is much, much....

A Study in Contrasts Two bloggers have recently posted links to very interesting articles. From Mallon's Media Watch, Don't end celibacy for priests, by Joel Mowbray in The Washington Times,....

Beware I am going to experiment with the blog's template today. :-)

Proposed Novena of the Litany of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Priest and Victim I am proposing a novena before the bishops' meeting in Dallas, June 13-15. To conclude the novena....

Typeface I have received a couple of complaints about the typeface being too small. Especially in the blockquoted text, which had been even smaller than the normal text. I have....

More on Weakland A reader informs me that Benedictines do not, strictly speaking, take a vow of poverty. They take a vow of obedience, of course, and one of stability....

Weakland Stiffed Milwaukee $450,000, No Matter How You Look at It Mark Shea also quotes a reader, concerning the hush... er... settlement between Rembert Weakland and James Marcoux, of $450,000.....

I Warned Ya Thanks to Mark Shea for the link to an AP article in The Boston Globe, May 23: The Roman Catholic Church must ordain women as priests or....

Questions for Gail Buckley Gail Buckley, who has a column in Sunday's New York Daily News (for some reason, not apparent from the column itself), says that it's time for....

E-mail Announcement of Latest Issue of The View The View from the Core 05/27/02 is now available. Column: "Habemus Papam! How Come Everybody and His Brother Slammed the Pope for....

Dear Amanda from Aunt Susanna Don't miss the latest Saturday Ramble from Susanna Cornett, one of my favorite bloggers, especially the advice she gives to her high-school-graduating niece towards the....

Yeah. Sure. Right. In a Boston Globe article, May 21, we find this hilarious bit: Although they lack statistics showing gay students outperform their peers, admissions officers say anecdotally that,....

Mark Shea Told Ya Amy Welborn referred her readers to a NYT article, May 22: Most evangelical Christians would say they have no interest in capitalizing on Catholicism's woe. But....

Andrew Smackdown Andrew Sullivan rather consistently loses his mind when discussing (1) sex or (2) the Catholic Church but especially (3) sex and the Catholic Church. Here is one of....

Mahony Baloney A post by Amy Welborn was the trigger for starting this blog. She referred her readers to an article in the May 16 LA Times, from which I....

Oned with the Blogosphere! Today, I inaugurate The Blog from the Core. It is Trinity Sunday, so in honor of the solemnity, here are selections from Ven. John Henry Newman's....