Here & There . . .

• Happy birthday to Apolonio Later III, one of the most gifted apologists in St. Blog's! =)
• Update on Terri Schiavo via EWTN. Also, the Weekly Standard reflects on "Beyond Terri's Law: What we can learn from the Schiavo case" 1/19/04.
• Update on Fr. Benedict Groeschel from Fr. Glenn Sudano, C.F.R. (10-14-03); and a second update (10-15-03).
• Prayers for an uncle of I. Shawn McElhinney ("Rerum Novarum"), and John Betts' grandmother.
• I. Shawn McElhinney has written a recent essay on "The 'Tradition is Opposed to Novelty' Canard" -- a favorite among the "rad-trads".
• Peter Sean Esquire on why it's not necessary to read The Da Vinci Code to be able to criticize it as part of the "Lost Gospels" genre, and the glaring inconsistencies in Dan Brown's treatment of the Gnostics in his work. Good stuff!
• Carl Olson ("Envoy Encore") explains why Howard Dean just might be Catholic!