Karol Józef Wojtyła, May 18, 1920 — April 2, 2005. The bell in St. Peter's Square is being tolled even now, the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday. .... Et dixit....

Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ little green footballs, Inkwell, Anchor Rising, Power Line (twice), Idle Mendacity, Two Sleepy Mommies, The QandO Blog,....

At TigerHawk, Mar. 31: Monday evening I attended a public lecture on al Qaeda's grand strategy by Michael Doran, Asst. Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton. Professor Doran was....

I have spent the last couple of weeks pondering my priorities. I have decided that the demands of real life — mostly the need to make more money — require....

An undated sermon by Rev. Ronald Knox. .... The Church is sometimes criticized for her want of courage, because she does not seek a direct issue with the tyrannical rulers....

Catholic Exchange kindly invited me to rework my blog of Monday morning. The revision, published today, had been finished before the news of Terri's death this morning.

By Mark Shea at Catholic and Enjoying It (first ellipsis in original): I'm still on hiatus, but since it's Easter, I wanted to scribble some of my thinking about the....

December 3, 1963 — March 31, 2005. Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen. Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo, December 3, 1963 — March....

Joe Ford, who has "severe cerebral palsy, the result of being deprived of oxygen at birth", writes at The Harvard Crimson, Mar. 25: The case of Terri Schiavo has been....

Mover Mike has moved.

Coalition for Darfur III & IV Never Again: Again and Again. + + + + + In her 2001 article "Bystanders to Genocide," Pulitzer Prize winning author Samantha Power recounts....

By Gerard Van Der Leun at American Digest: At some point last week, caught between the online Scylla and Charybdis of the Democratic Underground and the Free Republic, I began....

I was baptized this day, Palm Sunday, 1958. From Cardinal Newman's Difficulty of Realizing Sacred Privileges, March 31, 1839 (brackets in original): .... We are born almost into the fulness....

At Living Catholicism this week. Your Humble, Faithful Blogster has an entry in this week's Carnival. Because of Holy Week, I did not announce Catholic Carnival XXII at A Penitent....

Random Poetry List XX Spring Pools These pools that, though in forests, still reflect The total sky almost without defect, And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver, Will....

Random Poetry List XIX To a Violet Spring's sweet attendant! modest simple flower, Whose soft retiring charms the woods adorn, How often have I wandered at that hour, When first....

A poem by John Hearn. Some Thoughts on Life and Death Now the spring rains fall, Calling green shoots from the bare earth, To reach for the sun. Should I....

A missive from a new, and probably former, reader of The Blog from the Core. This just in (ellipses in original): Sorry to bother you as I am sure you....

I am applying for a part-time copy-editor position at a rather well-known website, which I'll leave nameless for the time being. I'll blog this evening, if I get the chance.....

A poem from our favorite Screaming Eagle poet. Naught's Solved by War? A flickering dawn lights Islam's hills, A faint emerging light. Can the torch of Lady Liberty Flare away....

Random Poetry List XVIII Before You Thought of Spring Before you thought of Spring Except as a Surmise You see—God bless his suddenness— A Fellow in the Skies Of independent....

Readers write. First, from John: I am sad to my bones about this mess. I know that there must be people starving to death some place in this world every....

A brand, spanking new weblog. Vide. (Thanks, Michelle.)

Sermons by Ven. John Henry Newman, D.D. Easter The Resurrection of the Body Witnesses of the Resurrection Christ, a Quickening Spirit (Easter Day) Saving Knowledge (Easter Monday) Self-Contemplation (Easter Tuesday)....

The winners are lawyers, experts, and men. But we are all losers, really. The results are in. Judicial supremacy — rather than the alleged checks-and-balances of separate-but-equal branches of our....

Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ Steve Sailer, One Hand Clapping, Catholic Analysis, Flos Carmeli, A Saintly Salmagundi, Cross-Currents, ProfessorBainbridge.com, No Left Turns,....

Easter Sunday 2005 Resurrexit All you that weep, all you that mourn,    All you that grieving go, Lift up your eyes, your heads adorn,    Put off your weeds of woe.....

Three sonnets by Michelangelo Buonarroti. For Inspiration The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed, If Thou the Spirit give by which I pray; My unassisted heart is barren....