Author: Peony Moss

Papa Honk’s got a picture up!

One of the nice things about corresponding with gentlemen bloggers is that when they quote you, they not only say nice things about you but they edit what you wrote into something that makes sense.

“I wonder just how much resources we are putting toward our schools, if we’re having to charge such – for many families – out-of-reach tuition (it’s no accident, I suspect, that enrollments are declining as tuition increases).” Perhaps I should clip this and send it to our new parish school, which just opened this fall.… Continue reading HMS Blog on Catholic school tuition

Steven Riddle on the love of reading: If I am such an inveterate reader, why do I not read scripture with the avidity with which I approach Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, and others? I need to ask myself the same question. This past week, I found out that there’s a prequel out to a science… Continue reading Confiteor

Last night over supper, my husband remarked that the secular papers had picked up on something Cardinal Ratzinger had written that apparently said it was okay for Catholics to vote for pro-choice candidates — for example, this article from the WaPo: (registration) Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican’s arbiter of doctrinal orthodoxy, has given Roman Catholic… Continue reading Special for my dear husband: What the Cardinal really said

Funny how on Labor Day everyone has the day off except a set of people who could really use a day off: retail workers. I think it’s important to remember where we came from (and where we might end up again if we’re not attentive.) My husband is from Pittsburgh and Andrew Carnegie’s prints are… Continue reading Labor Day