Chicago Daily Observer

DePaul U. has hired two Catholic scholars for its new Catholic Studies program — Peter Casarella, of Catholic U., where he headed a Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies, and Farrell O’Gorman, from Mississippi State U.’s English department.

Casarella has written about Christian Neo-Platonism, theological aesthetics, St. Bonaventure’s Trinitarian theology of creation, the idea of emergence in contemporary physics, and the Hispanic/Latino presence in the U.S. Catholic Church, according to a release.
He and his wife, then expecting their second child, and their one-year-old lived with students at Catholic U., in a get-close-to students dormitory arrangement. He has his doctorate from Yale.

O’Gorman has a “critically recognized” novel to his credit, “Awaiting Orders” (Idylls Press, 2006), in which he tries “to explore how a Christian message of hope and redemption can attain credibility,” said the America magazine reviewer — a far cry, to be sure, from what fiction readers ... Read More...

Smart, thoughtful, experienced, a first-rate legislator who’s usually on the correct side (my side, that is) of the issues, yet given to multiple mouthy mishaps. Joe Biden talks too much and too long and his words get ahead of his brain and he spends weeks apologizing for his gaffes instead of sharing his more worthy ideas.

Right out of the box this year, declaring for the presidency, the six-term senator from Delaware called Barack Obama “articulate” and noted the guy was “clean.” Not as bad as Bill O’Reilly’s amazement at the fact that people at a black restaurant were “normal,” but stupidly patronizing.

The triage experts in the media immediately wrote him off and he’s lived up to their expectations ever since. Came up with a doozy several weeks ago with some Comedy-Channel-style comment about Indian accents behind the counters at 7–11 stores.

Does he still wonder why the press ... Read More...