Got back from Tucson Arizona yesterday. Fascinating place ... I hope to blog about it soon. For now, here is a collection of items to read.

Amerians Lack Patience - New Study Shows -- interestingly it took me nearly a week to get this up. It had nothing to do with patience or lack thereof. Sloth maybe ...

Bishop Bruskewitz tells it like it is

Can the Da Vinci Code destroy an event?

Your daily dose of Patristics items from FathersOfTheChurch

Fresh translation of St. Clement of Rome’s Letter to the Corinthians - Must read ...

The Primacy of the Church of Rome: Documents, Reflections, Proofs ... see also a good post by Elliot Bougis titled "And you can quote me!" on the Eastern Fathers in reference to the primacy of the Church of Rome.

Protestants rethinking birth control

I hope Mark Shea is wrong in saying that "the day will come when the Church will be damned, not for covering up pedophilia, but for condemning it". Somehow, I fear that he is right ...

Christianity: Vagueness or a list of rules? - "Young people must be taught that Christianity is not a bodiless, abstract faith; nor is it a series of prohibitions, Pope Benedict XVI told a Rome audience on Monday evening"

You cannot make this stuff up - Curt Jester skewers another new, ummm, building project ... supposing to ... attempt to be ... a Catholic Church.

Out for tonight ...