Author: Peony Moss

Do you have to prove your ethnicity to get the minority discount? Pansy, the students hosting the bake sale did it to point out the absurdities of the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policy. The bake sale was not put on by the University itself, but by students of The Michigan Review (which I would… Continue reading Do you have to prove

Don’t try to hide behind that First Amendment stuff! Think of the children! I just opened today’s issue of our diocese newspaper, which is usually a quick read: a cute or touching picture on the front page, usually of a schoolchild or of the congregation at a big Mass… Cardinal McCarrick’s column… Georgetown parish or… Continue reading Don’t try to hide behind

Ideas needed. FAST I have all kinds of things I want to blog on, including discussions of three or four books, but I am looking over the calendar and realizing that we have a major family holiday on Saturday — little Hambet is turning two — and it’s Thursday. So, gentle readers, any ideas for… Continue reading Ideas needed. FAST I have

Why Young Catholics Leave the Church and How to Bring Them Back thanks to the Accidental Choir Director for the link. I just noticed that he is only 27! How I mourn my wasted youth!

More HMS Blog recaps. Catholic talk show host Al Kresta is seriously ill and needs prayers. HMS Blog is putting together a spiritual bouquet for him. I was going to comment in my previous post that it was the perceived hypocrisy of the Church — “nobody really believes this, they’re all just going through the… Continue reading More HMS Blog recaps. Catholic

For those who are just now emerging from their duct-taped, plastic-sheeted basements… A quick recap (and, in the spirit of G.K. Chesterton, a little short on details…) Sisters of Mercy, running a high school in Michigan someplace, have a charity auction to benefit the school. One of the prizes was lunch with Governor Jennifer “I’m… Continue reading For those who are just

Do not eat or drink while reading this latest offering from The Curt Jester..

Comments: a haiku (in the style of Kathy the Carmelite) Wow! More comments — but no, Enetation’s down. I knew this’d happen!