Blogworthies XIV Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ Mere Comments, ut unum sint, Catholic Analysis, Envoy Encore, Catholic and Enjoying It!, Discriminations, Yourish.com,....

"The Tyranny of Choice" An excellent article by Barry Schwartz at Godspy: The modern university has become a kind of intellectual shopping mall. Universities offer a wide array of different....

Mental Pompeii A fairly young Catholic blog. By Clay Randall @ Pillar of Truth Online.

Out of This Furnace A young Catholic blog from another Pittsburgher. Vide. (Thanks, Nârwen.)

Journalists Stuck in Their Own Quagmire Michael Barone writes at The London Telegraph yesterday: Too many Americans and, so far as I can judge, Britons insist on seeing what is....

Alcoholic, Heterodox Priest Removes Himself From Catholic Church Deo gratias. Fr. William Hausen, a profound embarrassment to the Church of Pittsburgh, has taken his leave: The Rev. William Hausen knows....

Still Comfortable? WaPo notes today a new ad campaign from American Life League: A Roman Catholic antiabortion group launched an advertising campaign against Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington yesterday,....

Episcopal Spine Alert A just-discovered weblog. You know it's cool because it blogrolls The Blog from the Core. :-) (Thanks, Mark.)

Excommunication. Excommunication? Excommunication! April 16, 1962, the Archbishop of New Orleans excommunicated three Catholics for continuing "to hinder his orders or provoke the devoted people of this venerable archdiocese to....

"Seven — And Climbing" Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCXCIII From Deborah Orin at the New York Post yesterday. + + + + + It was bizarre yesterday to hear John....

"The Big Steal" Prof. Peter Wood writes at NRO yesterday: .... Why is college so expensive? Why does federal aid never really succeed in making college more affordable? These shouldn't....

Has John Kerry Just Been Inserted Into The Toaster? Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCXCII To begin, here's some of the coverage of Tuesday's SwiftVets press conference. First, at UPI, May....

Re: "A Time for Honesty" A reader shares her letter to the reporter: The new bishop of Phoenix is not an "ultra conservative" — he is a faithful Catholic teaching....

"Fire" A sonnet by John Hearn. In burning gas that heats its fuel to burn, And so release the pent up light of days Long past in coal, or just....

"We Have Been Silent Long Enough" Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCXCI "You now seek to clad yourself in the very medals that you disdainfully threw away in the early years....

NGO Watch Vide.

"A Time for Honesty" A pastoral letter today from John J. Myers, Archbishop of Newark (quoted ellipsis in original): .... Communion is Not Private Because the Eucharist is the source....

Defensor Fidei Vide. (Thanks, Jeff.)

Re: Ted Rall is a Creep A reader writes: Ted Rall's parents should be profoundly ashamed of what they produced. He can sit and desecrate Pat Tillman's sacrifice because of....

Kerry's 1971 Senate Testimony Fisked Vide.

"Loose Cannon" Kerry "Unfit for Office" Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCXC Here's the news at CNS today of the press conference that had been announced yesterday: John Kerry's former swift....

Bravo to Bishop Olmsted! I have neglected, Faithful Reader, to call your attention to the reforming actions of Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix: A rapid series of recent diocesan actions....

1942 All Over Again? John Moser writes an editorial at Ashbrook Center, May 2004: .... A spate of propaganda over the past ten years about the "greatest generation" has contributed....

"Liberalism Dissolves the Person" An article by Dr. Keith Burgess-Jackson at TCS, Apr. 27: Why are liberals such as Paul Krugman, Michael Moore, and Howard Dean so angry and aggressive?....

Culture of Death on Catholic Campuses A report from the Cardinal Newman Society: Cardinal Newman Society has issued a shocking new report on scandals at U.S. Catholic colleges and universities....

"Buyer's Remorse"? Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCLXXXIX John Fund's diary yesterday. (Ellipses in original.) + + + + + It's six months until the election, and Democrats are already having....

Ted Rall is a Creep Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCLXXXVIII Well, we already knew that.

Band of Brothers? Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCLXXXVII At CNS today: Hundreds of former commanders and military colleagues of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry are set to declare in a....

Media Matters for America Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCLXXXVI Vide. Confer Tim Graham: Is there anything funnier on Earth than factually challenged David Brock starting a web site to fight....

Struggling Kerry Unlikable Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCLXXXV First, at the New York Times, Saturday. + + + + + Two months after Senator John Kerry effectively captured the Democratic....

USA Disgraced by Some Soldiers in Iraq? At today's New York Times: An internal Army investigation has found a virtual collapse of the command structure in a prison outside Baghdad....

The Fourth Sunday of Easter Lege.

Three by Dowson II Three poems by Ernest Dowson. Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls,    These watch the sacred lamp, these watch and pray:....