Great day, even though we only had my mother over for the day, having seen my brother Phil and his family last night. And my brother Jim who spent a couple of nights with us, spent today day with his two boys. More pictures tomorrow, but here’s a nice one of Tim helping my mother … Read more
Some views of Christmas trees world-wide. Thank you Bernadette for sending me these. Rockefeller Center in NY city – Trafalgar Square. The tree is a gift from Norway – they’ve been sending a Christmas tree as a gift since 1947 as a token of thanks for Britain’s aid in World War II In Tokyo And … Read more
Catholics only make up about 10% of the population in Great Britain. A distinct minority. However, in terms of Church pracitise, they are now the largest. Britain has become a ‘Catholic country’ – Telegraph Last night, leading figures gave warning that the Church of England could become a minority faith and that the findings should … Read more
This should be good news; we’re one of the few developed countries with a "replacement rate" fertility level. But not everyone is happy about it … It’s mentioned in the excerpt; you’ll have to hit the link for the last paragraph quoting some environmental sourpuss. U.S. Fertility Rate Hits 35-Year High, Stabilizing Population – washingtonpost.com … Read more
Here’s some shots of Tim in his Santa outfit, as he headed to school this morning. I think he’s a dead ringer for Santa, although perhaps Santa with a tan?
Brigid’s big birthday present finally arrived (please ignore the rest of the garage!) yesterday – eight days late. Here’s what it looks like, wrapped up in it’s shipping mummy. Will unpack it over the weekend.
On Tuesday the local Gannett newspaper had a nice feature story on one of my former high school teachers, now Monsignor Thomas Shelley. the article was about his just-published history of the NY Archdiocese. It’s a good article – A new history of the Archdiocese of NY tells the Catholic story of the last 200 … Read more
Fr. Groeschel is kind of the Faranda Family Guru. Brigid and I have known him since about 1990, Tom Faranda’s Folly: The official Guru of the Faranda family, featured in NY Times article although we’ve only seen him a few times since his near-fatal accident a number of years ago. We were involved in a … Read more
The past weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal had a long front page article about a family working with many physicians to extendthe life of their son. It’s really a great article, which unfortunately is not available unless you are a Wall Street Journal subscriber. I am putting the link in, because sometimes these … Read more
The Washington Post has an editorial today, highlighting the intransigence of Sudanese Dictator Bashir, and the failures of Europe and NATO in the situation. Stuck on Darfur – washingtonpost.com WHEN THE United Nations Security Council approved an expanded peacekeeping force for the Darfur region of Sudan last summer, some Western politicians may have concluded — … Read more