The Catholic Bishops write President-elect Obama

This is on the Bishop's website, and I am publishing the whole thing below USCCB – (Office of Media Relations) Bishops Address Opportunities, Challenges for New President, Congress January 13, 2009 The Honorable Barack ObamaPresident-electPresidential Transition TeamWashington, D.C.  20270 Dear Mr. President-elect, As our nation begins a new year, a new Administration and a new Congress, … Read more

Latest Read: “Stand Up and Fight”

In keeping with my resolution here My second annual New Year's interview with myself about getting back to reading more books, this is the first of the year. And even though it's a sports book, with the sub-title When Munster best the All Blacks, it's certainly a serious book. While ostensibly about a rugby match, it's … Read more

Americans: More of us are now obese rather then merely overweight

I suppose this is one of the main reasons that despite our greater expenditures for healthcare, we lag some other countries when it comes to various health categories – and life expectancy. Obese Americans now outweigh the merely overweight | U.S. | Reuters Numbers posted by the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than 34 … Read more

More on the death of Fr. Neuhaus

Yesterday I posted about the death of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus Tom Faranda's Folly: Fr. Richard John Neuhaus . For information on the arrangements, and to read a fine editorial in National Review Online, go here –LifeNet: More on the death of Fr. Neuhaus, and the arrangements

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus

Fr. Neuhaus died this morning - evidently a return of the cancer he had ten years ago. Only a few days ago he'd briefly posted something on the First Things website saying he was undergoing treatment.  His death is a loss for the rest of us. Brigid and I had met him several times, heard him speak … Read more

The most popular posting on my weblog …

Is this one. Tom Faranda's Folly: Mediport taken out today It's not even close – I get anywhere from three to twelve hits everyday on it. I presume this is because of it's high ranking on certain google searches. For example if you google "mediport picture", it's the top listing. Google "Lmphoma mediport" it's the 4th listing. … Read more

Visitors from England

When we were in England last summer, we stayed with Mick Paine, Jan, and their two daughters, Heidi and Zoey. Heidi is the young lady in the very middle of the picture next to Joe. Mick was our good friend when we lived in Jamaica – we both taught at the same school.  And despite his communist, atheist, … Read more