Food for thought: That Boston’s Bernard Cardinal Law, or at least his advisers, are becoming more adept playing the media game is apparent from the latest developments in the ongoing scandal which has rocked the Catholic Church. His 15-member Finance Council was to have convened last Wednesday for a vote approving $7 million in payments… Continue reading

Bill Buckley’s National Review which called for the cardinal’s resignation last month, had more to say on the subject in its latest issue. Reiterating how Cardinal Law has acknowledged he had erred when he shuffled Fr. Shanley around various ministeries, National Review said: “What he has not acknowledged is that the only way to do… Continue reading

Another tough day for Boston Archbishop Bernard Cardinal Law as the news of the arrest in San Diego of Fr. Paul Shanley, for years a priest under his jurisdiction and one who liked boys—little boys, was all over the pages of the Boston Globe and the Herald this morning. This all after the four principal… Continue reading

Site of the day: Total Rewind is about the only place on the Web where you can find a really detailed history of home video technology—dating back to the beginning, meaning the late 1960s and early 1970s. It’s a UK site that focuses on UK users, but most of what it says pretty much goes… Continue reading

That big puff piece on Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts in today’s Boston Globe had a rather amusing 2-column head atop it: “John Kerry hasn’t said he’ll run for President, but he’s hoping that people will get to know him—and like him.” Of course, every one at the Globe and the N.Y. Times which owns… Continue reading