Baseball and the longing for more

I was born as the reign of the Big Red Machine came to an end. I remember Johnny Bench more as a commentator than a player. Pete Rose was more a manager to me than anything else—before he was banned, that is. Riverfront Stadium was a frequent destination for our family, despite living in Dayton, …

Fiducia Supplicans and the importance of language

Yesterday's issuance of Fiducia Supplicans by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith was perplexing, to say the least. What struck me was how the declaration equivocates on the nature of a "blessing" and purposely creates an ambiguity for anyone seeking to use the declaration as a license to contravene Church teaching. Photo by …