Friday Free-for-All

Time for your Friday morning links:

  • In the Caritas Christi Health Care deal in Boston (where the Catholic hospital group was just sold to Cerberus Capital Management), how much is their Catholic identity worth? 3 percent of the purchase price.

  • Pius XII just got a movie, and now John Paul II has… a musical?
  • For anyone who ever obsessed over Joan Holloway’s or Betty Draper’s wardrobe: You’re welcome.

  • Roger Ebert’s vocation as a priest: A moving recollection of living (and, ultimately, losing) his Catholic faith.
  • To Kill a Mockingbird turns 50 this year, which means it must be time to reassess the novel’s worth: “It’s time to stop pretending that ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is some kind of timeless classic that ranks with the great works of American literature. Its bloodless liberal humanism is sadly dated, as pristinely preserved in its pages as the dinosaur DNA in ‘Jurassic Park.’” Discuss.
  • This fall, I’m voting for Clint Webb. At least he’s up-front about his unquenchable lust for self-glorification:

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    Margaret Cabaniss is the former managing editor of Crisis Magazine. She joined Crisis in 2002 after graduating from the University of the South with a degree in English Literature and currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She now blogs at SlowMama.com.

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