Culture editor James Martin S J visited Milwaukee recently for the Archdiocese s annual Pallium Lecture sponsored by Archbishop Jerome Listecki While there he spoke with the NPR nbsp show Lake Effect on Ignatian spirituality Jesuit life and the role of humor in the church Listen here nb

See update above DFL Ad Not Anti-Catholic nbsp Just Confusing Want a real example of anti-Catholicism Here it is courtesy of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party apparently in reponse to Archbishop nbsp John Nienstedt s mailing of 400 000 DVDs in opposition to same-sex marriage H t

Reporting in Rome on it for a week and having read almost every word to have come out of it in the course of its 14 days I simply cannot recognize the description of the Mid-East Synod ending last weekend which was made on Sunday by the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon complained that

Cambridge MA I was at first relieved when Jim Martin rsquo s typically excellent entry ldquo Catholic Bloggers Aim to Purge rdquo was pointed out to me to realize that whatever attacks are made against me by the Purgers they are so mild that I do not notice them But then I was alarmed to re

Boy this looks like a dynamite exhibit nbsp It s currently at Ellis Island but is travelling around the States nbsp More info is here nbsp

In the Midwest there are tornadoes but last month a storm microburst one of politics commanded pages of Chicago rsquo s newspapers spewing winds across the country to Washington DC where Obama rsquo s Chief of Staff resigned to seek the mayor rsquo s office Mayor Richard M Daley Daley II