This made for a very Happy Easter: The Rev. Charles J. Murphy is returning to St. Francis Xavier Church in Weymouth now that the archdiocese has cleared him of sexual abuse charges. ‘‘It was a nightmare for him,’’ Boston attorney Timothy O’Neill, who represented the Rev. Murphy in a lawsuit, said yesterday. ‘‘He has had… Continue reading

What better way to commemorate Good Friday than by a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem, Dream of the Rood….

For those of you dreading you’ll have to read DaVinci Code before the over-hyped movie comes out (or even after), help is on the way! Rev. John Wauck humorously summarizes the plot—so you won’t have to.

Carl Zimmer discusses the latest flurry of PR from the Discovery Institute. Is it me, or is it strange that intelligent design advocates are telling biologists that they aren’t working hard enough, that they are not getting enough results from their lab work? Remember, this is the same Michael Behe whose sole peer-reviewed paper in… Continue reading

Belated Book Discovery. I don’t know what else to name this dept. But lately I’ve been discovering a lot of good writers who have been around for a while. This gem was recommended to me by Tor editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden. And boy…after some of the other recent SF/Fantasy offerings I’ve sampled, Steven Brust is… Continue reading