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My blogging time this week went into a new post at What's Wrong with the World on a disturbing thing--disturbing to me anyway--I'm s...

The collect for the fourth Sunday after Easter reads as follows: O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of si...

I apologize to my long-suffering readers here at Extra Thoughts, if I retain any, for my silence in the last couple of weeks. Spring has fin...

About five years ago a friend said to me, quite confidently, "Do you know what the subtitle of 'Onward, Christian Soldiers' is...

...but he does not submit. See Mark's story about Robert Latimer, who murdered his disabled daughter and is proud of it, here . I've...

Dear Readers, I have reluctantly decided to enable comments moderation for a time, even on such a low-traffic blog as this one. This action ...

I was studying Colossians with Middle Daughter the other day. Got to the part where Paul warns his readers about people who will beguile the...

There is so much good Easter music. If I may venture to give advice, I would suggest that you sing to celebrate Easter. Even if you can'...

A joyous feast of Our Lord's glorious resurrection to my readers. I've been thinking a lot about the resurrection lately, what with ...

A couple of weeks ago Youngest Daughter said, "I want you to sing to me." So I sat down with her and broke out the standard repert...

This morning we sang "O Sacred Head." I always have a bit of trouble wrapping my mind around verse 2: Thy beauty, long-desirèd, h...

I meant to write something here about hymns and songs but don't have time. But I have a new post on What's Wrong with the World tha...

I'll be posting briefly about this on What's Wrong with the World in the next couple of days, too. Meanwhile, I'm very pleased t...

Attention all you readers with some mathematical flair or knowledge. Or even without. (I don't have a whole lot of that myself and enjoy...

Okay, now, just for fun. I was...rather young in 1971 when the Three Dog Night's rendition of "Joy to the World" topped the ch...

I had heard only faint rumblings about a professor denied tenure at DePaul last summer/fall. I paid little attention and hadn't wittingl...

(Gee, I almost found myself saying "issues" in the post header. Don't you hate the new use of "issue" to mean "...

For those of you who don't know of him, Mark Pickup is a Canadian blogger with multiple sclerosis who has been writing about life issue...

My hordes of readers will notice the blog's new look. And just in case anyone doesn't get the allusion, it is to Zippy Catholic'...

Luke 18:1 says, "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint." Thus begins the p...