Excuses, excuses

Happy New Year to all.  Or, I should say, happy Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.

Apologies for the light blogging.  For the past few days, my family and I have been making the move to Chicago, where the Other Professor Garnett and I will be teaching this Spring.  Any advice from Chicago-area MOJ-readers about parishes would be much appreciated.  Our local parish, St. Thomas the Apostle, is lovely, and convenient.  But, the pastor is a bit too . . . creative? . . . with the liturgy for my taste.

Walking around Hyde Park / Kenwood yesterday, and then -- after that -- braving the traffic of Lincoln Park, I was reminded, yet again, of MOJ-friend Phil Bess's contention that, as a matter of natural law, human beings ought to make and live in walkable, mixed-use settlements.