For those bibliophiles among you who buy books online and use the Mozilla Firefox browser—I do and I love it—there’s a cool little add-on called Book Burro that you should look at. Book Burro "senses" when you are looking at a book online, and pops up a little panel, which, if you click on it, [...]

The Dan and Debra Murphy family has set out on a perilous quest: discussing and discerning a possible common vocation to serve love and life through beauty.
We’ve been moving gradually in this direction for some time.
*Debra has established a small Catholic press ("Idylls Press") to give voice to Christian personalism largely in the [...]

On the Culture of Death front, pro-life activists in Delaware are asking for prayers and support to prevent the passage of an embryonic stem cell research bill in their state. For more information, see Rae Stabosz’ blog and the A Rose and a Prayer website.

The UK Daily Telegraph has published an illuminating interview with J.K. Rowling. There are two points especially worth highlighting. First, a comment on death, magic and Harry Potter that puts the series squarely in the thematic tradition of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings:
Death is the key to understanding J K Rowling. Her greatest fear [...]

I’m very excited by what I’m hearing about Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, Deus est Caritas, scheduled for release mid-month.
First, here’s what John Allen has to say in his most recent Report from Rome:
Anyone looking for a “warm-up exercise” might consider C.S. Lewis’ 1960 book The Four Loves. The encyclical is expected to review different [...]