Thomas Craughwell
I put my title in quotation marks because it does not originate with me (I wish it had!). It is a jibe coined by history professor Rachel Fulton Brown of the University of Chicago, who appears to delight in provoking…
On the first day of the new school year, the kids at San Domenico’s School in San Anselmo, California, probably noticed a change in their campus. Half a dozen statues of saints are gone. That still leaves ten in place,…
The Knights of Columbus’ distinctive feather-crowned admiral chapeau (it was never referred to as a hat) has just gone the way of the tri-corn headgear of George Washington’s Continental Army. At the Knights’ annual convention this summer, Supreme Knight Carl…
The mayor of Passaic, New Jersey, may just have committed political suicide. Last Wednesday, Mayor Hector Lora sent a crew from the Department of Public Works to a private shrine located on state property on the right-of-way along Route 21….
Like all of you, my workday ends with a sense of relief rather than a laugh, but last night was different. During my recap of current news I came upon a photo I found hilarious: The advertising guys at KLM…
We’re three weeks into Season Seven of Game of Thrones, and a significant portion of the Catholic blogosphere has made its opinion known: it doesn’t like the show. I mean, these bloggers really don’t like the show. If anyone has…
A judge in White County, Tennessee, has made prisoners an offer some are finding hard to refuse: if they agree to be sterilized, they will earn a 30-day reduction in their sentence. Male offenders will undergo a vasectomy. Female offenders…
An oddball sect has decided to mark the August 21 total eclipse of the sun by gathering inside the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Every day, the shrine welcomes believers and non-believers of all stripes. But…
The Devil was planning an excursion to Belle Plaine, Minnesota, but the city council derailed his visit. The town’s Veterans Memorial Park has been a focus of controversy since January 2017. Well, not the entire park, just a particular portion…
Most college kids have a stash. No doubt more than a few college professors have a stash. But Kean University in New Jersey is unique in the nation for having just found the governor’s stash — no, not Governor Chris…
