Just as people of faith travel to holy places through the world such as Lourdes or Mecca music fans also recognize the sacredness of certain locations One such righteous locale is Austin Texas home of the annual South by Southwest SXSW festival nbsp My wife and I were SXSW rock and roll pil

The progressive catholic group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good have an interesting take on how the politics of the abortion issue is changing You can find it here

I guess I must repeat the question What is it about President Obama that drives otherwise sane people crazy Our friends at National Review Online have run a symposium on the subject of Notre Dame rsquo s decision to award the President an honorary degree and to invite him to give this year rsquo

Do you know Father Daniel Lord SJ nbsp You would have if you were an American Catholic in the 1950s nbsp The legendary Jesuit priest was nbsp what Daniel Endres a doctoral student at Catholic University nbsp called nbsp a larger-than-life figure of the seeingly confidence cohesive preconcil

The University of Notre Dame made twin announcements that President Barack Obama would be giving the commencement speech and Ambassador MaryAnn Glendon would be receiving the university rsquo s Laetare Medal this past weekend The first news about Obama came on Friday and blogger extraordinaire Roc

A recent book on baseball umpires reviewed positively is entitled ldquo As They See lsquo Em rdquo nbsp That reminded me of nbsp a comment in the New Yorker many years ago about nbsp hree umpires explaining how they called lsquo em -- The first umpire said ldquo Some rsquo s balls and so