Around St Blog's: January 2004 Archives

Well, actually you saw it at Flos Carmeli first.

It's the International SPY LANGUAGE!

Karen Marie Knapp has been hospitalized since before Christmas. She's in subacute now.

Her family has been posting occasional updates in her comments box, and now there's an address posted at Mr Serafin's place if you'd like to drop her a line.

Thanks to Steven for the heads-up.

M'Lynn, her hubby, and the Tribe are ensnared in a web of red tape impervious to the machete of common sense -- our fine school and judicial systems at work again! Details here. They could use some prayer assistance (and, for those in a position to lend it, more practical assistance) right away.

TSO posts this review of a book titled The Two Income Trap:

Married couples with children are more than twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as their childless counterparts....the authors point to the unintended consequences of sending 20 million American mothers to work. Rather than gaining more disposable household income, families saw real wages for men decline: the predictable result of more laborers pursuing the same number of jobs.... The higher nominal incomes of two-earner families also led to a fresh "bidding war" for nice homes in good suburban school districts, sending mortgage costs soaring.... Most important, the oft-derided stay-at-home mother proved to have been the true "safety net" in American life....

...the SUMMAS! Woo hoo!

The Summa Mamas are moving to stblogs.org!

Alicia (please pray for the quick resolution of her license issue)

Master Xander Lams (check out the pictures)

Sparki's baby is on the way....

to Fructus Ventris!

Wanna send a present? How about a prayer for a quick resolution to her license issues.

The local radio news was also reporting that a group of sexual abuse victims, represented by the same lawyers in the Boston cases, are bringing allegations against the Archdiocese of Washington and are "demanding" to meet with Theodore Cardinal McCarrick.

I haven't been able to find confirmation of this yet. I will be curious, if it is true, as to what they expect (well, besides lots and lots of money, of course.) I was under the impression that Cardinal Hickey cleaned house several years ago, and I know there was a system for reporting allegations of abuse well before the Geoghan case broke. (WaPo; marketing questions) But then, what could ever make up for the harm done to the victims? And what could ever satisfy the greed of the lawyers and the false accusers, and the desire of the professionally aggrieved for the spotlight?

UPDATE: David Morrison has more here and here.

Never thought that Steven Riddle's erudition extended to these fine journals. Now we know exactly who to turn to next time we need an update on the career of Bat-boy.

Our domain master RC brings us the happy news that Good Form and Suffer the Little Children have come to stblogs.org. Welcome!