Editors of Dappled Things will be promoting the magazine at a booth at the University of Dallas Ministry Conference during October 28 and 29. Please stop by to say high if you're in the area!

Contrary to what was posted here last week, Archbishop Dolan's interview of Fr. Damian Ference about his essay "Why Vocation Programs Don't Work" will air on Thursday, August 18th, at 12 noon Eastern Time on SiriusXM channel 129, rather than on August 11th as had been previously stated.

Recently, Fr. Damian Ference, whose essays have appeared many times in Dappled Things (most recently in the Easter 2011 edition), published an interesting article on Homiletic and Pastoral Review on "Why Vocations Programs Don't Work." He will be talking about it tomorrow (August 11) at noon on SiriusXM satellite radio with Archbishop Timothy Dolan on channel 129.

What might have been: Flannery O'Connor, the cartoonist.