It’s the feast of Saints Simon and Jude, a big day in our house. My son wrote a fine children’s book about St. Jude (deep in history and beautifully illustrated too). I hope you’ll read it.

It’s also my friend Scott Hahn‘s birthday. You can find out his age by poking around his website.

And today marks the conclusion of the St. Paul Center‘s Letter and Spirit Conference — which I’m pleased to say was entirely sold out.

Tonight’s Lawler Lecture, however, by the great patrologist Father Thomas Weinandy, is free and open to the public. If you can drive to Pittsburgh, I hope to see you there. Father Weinandy is speaking on St. Athanasius’s doctrine of the Holy Spirit.