Just back from Tahoe, where we took the kids during Easter break for some spring skiing. (Note of parental pride: In three days, the kids went from never having skied in their lives to skiing expert, or “black diamond,” runs. Spring snow is slow snow, of course, and it would be too much to say that the children skied the expert slopes in an expert fashion—our seven-year old managed to get one ski stuck so securely in a mogul that the ski and the boot both popped off, leaving Andrew wiggling a stockinged foot in the air as he bleated for help from his mother, while our eleven-year old, Pedro, lost control on a patch of ice, fell, and then slid a good 75 yards on his bottom—but each of the children spent most of his time upright and all his time displaying adventurousness, rapidly developing skills, and high hilarity.) After catching up on the postings I missed while out of town, two questions.

The first for Kathryn: After his meeting with John Forbes Kerry, did Theodore Cardinal McCarrick issue a statement? Or say anything to the press? Or was it just as you feared—namely that the Cardinal said nothing, in effect giving the senator his imprimatur as a Catholic in good standing?

And the second for Derb: After our trip to the mountains the whole family is tired and in the mood to stay in and watch a movie or two this weekend, but if I have to sit through “The Sound of Music” of “Finding Nemo” one more time I’ll go mad. Our kids run in age from seven to just a couple of months shy of 13. (There is also a two-year old, but since she’s uninterested in anything more advanced than “Barney,” she does not, for present purposes, count.) Do I understand your posting below to mean that you’d recommend “School of Rock?” Even for children? This is important.