There is some discussion on a post below about “liberal” or “progressive” Catholics. Dot-Commers, as one would expect, are of different views, and there seems little common ground even as to the meaning of the labels.Meanwhile a video is making its way around Boston College, providing frazzled students with momentary surcease from end-of-semester labors.Indeed, it seems to be creating common ground among a variety of student types: wonderment at the way some grandparents carry on.You may care to check it out.

Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, has contributed to Commonweal for fifty years. A selection of his essays and reviews, some of which first appeared in Commonweal, has been published as Christ Brings All Newness (Word on Fire Academic).

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