At the Good Friday Pax Christi Stations of the Cross through Manhattan

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The 14 stations of the Cross a Catholic devotion (not completely biblical) that retraces Jesus’ steps from his condemnation to his crucifixion and death. Pax Christi is the (or one of the) Catholic peace organizations. When Brigid and I started doing the Stations in the early 90’s it would draw 800-900 people and get coverage … Read more

Easter art: “Touch me not”

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A day early. Chinese art and an ancient short sermon tomorrow. Last Easter I received this image from a group called Daily Theology and liked it. “Noli me Tangere” or “Touch me not” as Mary Magdelene recognizes Jesus as she is leaving the empty tomb. The school of art is the Cretan School of Byzantine … Read more

Good Friday, 2017

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Good Friday – the somberest day on the Christian calendar. Today I’m going to the Pax Christi Stations of the Cross, across Manhattan. I like the Pax Christi Stations – ANY public display of prayer and penance through a big city is a good thing – and I’ve done it pretty much every year for … Read more

Peggy Noonan wins Pulitzer Prize

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UPDATE: YIKES! I corrected my misspelling of Pulitzer! One of my favorite writers (and a great speechwriter for Reagan), although to be honest I haven't paid that much attention to her Wall Street Journal columns the last couple of years. Guess I should have. In the past I read a number of her books. The … Read more

SciAm: “Most Cancer Cases Arise from “Bad Luck” Environment and heredity are smaller players than researchers previously believed”

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From Friday's daily email which Scientific American sends to anyone interested. Science marches on as underlying beliefs get overthrown. It was the study that launched hundreds of scientific rebuttals, insinuations that the authors had been paid off by the chemical industry, and charges that it was a “massive” stunt “hidden behind fancy numbers of doubtful … Read more