Our preschool search...Part 2: First ImpressionsIn searching for a school for our son Frank, who has developmental delays, we found it difficult to find a warm and safe place where he can play and learn. Here is the story of one of our visits on the “preschool tour.”When I visitedRead More
While the authors never shy away from depicting ecclesiastical authorities opposing the new science, they avoid using the Galileo episode to attack the church, as so many people have done throughout the years. Rather, they show the churchmen’s sincerity, concerned and unsure as they were of how to absorb the new discoveries, not only for...Read More
The head of the Irish bishops’ conference distanced himself from comments made by U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke concerning Irish voters who backed same-sex marriage.Read More
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called same-sex marriage “the greatest social experiment of our time” and said that “children do not need experiments,” but rather the love of a mother and father at the third annual March for Marriage rally supporting traditional marriage on Capitol Hill.Read More
It’s strawberry time! We like them plain or sugared or dropped on one of those round yellow cake shells and smothered in whipped cream.We also have a few strawberry recipes we love. I've shared each of these before, but never in one convenient place. And who has time to huntRead More
Introduction to our search for the right preschool:In searching for a school for our son Frank, who has developmental delays, we found it difficult to find a warm and safe place where he can play and learn. This is the first in a four-part series on our preschoolRead More
A couple weeks ago we sent away for five caterpillars. When they arrived, they were tiny, moving around inside their plastic cup and not doing much else.They grew...and grew.Then on Friday the first two climbed to the lid of the cup and became chrysalides.As I understand it, and biology isRead More