So, we are getting ready to tile the master bathroom. We have the tile all picked out, but are still deciding on the pattern. We have accent tiles and want to do some kind of accent pattern in the middle of the room ( Read more... )

I was a little surprized at the responses to my last post here and in catholicism. Absolutely no one favored the dogmatization of the titles. I wonder what that says about the demographic that supports such a theological development and conversely about the demographic that posts in online Catholic communities. I guess there isn't a lot of overlap ( Read more... )

I'm sure that many of you have heard the news that 5 cardinals have petitioned the Pope to make an ex cathedra pronouncement declaring a fifth Marian dogma, that Mary is Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces.

annabellissima and I spent yestserday evening doing a bunch of web-reading on the subject. We're both ok with the title of Co-Redemptrix when ( Read more... )

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What??!! "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"? In November??!! This has gotten out of hand .. way, way out of hand.

The exterior is almost finished!! It's come a long way since the the last time I posted about it.

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OK, what is American Papist's deal with global warming? It seems like he links to every little article out there that is contradictory to or dismissive of claims of the existence of global warming and its consequences or that it is human-caused. This is the kind of thing that really bugs me, when Catholics integrate their political ideologies ( Read more... )

Last week I took a small construction job for one of my neighbors, a fifty something medical retiree. His house is directly across from Polycarp and is its mirror image. He had a leak coming through the little roof of a bay window. I wanted to take a look at it from the window above and at first, he didn't want to let me in his house ( Read more... )

We've been rebuilding the mud-room at the back of Polycarp... ( Read more... )

I am stuck at the repair shop and they have wireless, so my usual "never get online, I got too much to do" MO is on hold for a moment. Going through my computer, I found a brief, but old, post so I'm putting it up now:

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Now this is the Catholic faith: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in unity, neither ( Read more... )