Karen Hall posted a convenient list of this year’s winners and runner up in the 2007 Catholic Blog Awards.
Best Apologetic Blog: Jimmy Akin
Runner-Up: The Cafeteria is Closed
Best Blog by Clergy/Religious/Seminarian: What Does Prayer Really Say?
Runner-Up: Pontifications
Best Designed Catholic Blog: The New Liturgical Movement
Runner-Up: Open Book
Best Group Blog: The Shrine of the Holy Whapping
Runner-Up: The New Liturgical Movement
Best Individual Blog: Open Book
Runner-Up: The Cafeteria is Closed
Best Insider News Catholic Blog: Whispers in the Loggia
Runner-Up: Open Book
Best New Catholic Blog: Rorate Caeli
Runner-Up: Cardinal Sean’s Blog
Best Overall Catholic Blog: Open Book
Runner-Up: Jimmy Akin
Best Political/Social Commentary: The Anchoress
Runner-Up: Catholic and Enjoying It
Best Written Catholic Blog: Open Book
Runner-Up: Daily Danielle
Funniest Catholic Blog: The Curt Jester
Runner-Up: Daily Danielle
Most Spiritual Blog: Pontifications
Runner-Up: The New Liturgical Movement
Smartest Catholic Blog: Jimmy Akin
Runner-Up: Pontifications
The full award results are here along with vote totals. So congratulations to all the winners and to all the nominees. The number of great nominees were available in every category and in many cases any of the top ten would have been appropriate as the winner.
For those that voted for me in any category you have my heart-felt thanks. The reason we have the blog awards just before Lent is so that our egos can get down to a manageable size before Easter. I always loved the way people like Mother Angelica could let praise pass right through them and let it be redirected towards Jesus. I would love to do the same, but attributing my humor to Jesus doesn’t seem quite right. Though I really should since he wonderfully gave us the capacity for humor and the best of humor is that which has a large grain of truth. I was glad to see that newcomers to the funniest blog category The Ironic Catholic and Alive and Young also received many votes. There are relatively few Catholic blogs that specialize in humor though there are a large majority who dabble in humor at times. The great things about Catholic blogs is that you are not always sure when they will make you laugh, cry, or pray.
I was quite pleased to do as well as I did in the Best Political/Social Commentary Catholic Blog where competition is especially stiff. The Anchoress certainly deserves the win and she was the one I nominated and voted for. She is also one of the few members of St. Blogs that has a well-deserved large readership outside of the Catholic blogosphere.
Winners and nominees, You can now download your buttons for the 2007 CBAs. There are buttons in each category for the winner and the nominees. Make sure you copy the buttons to your own server space and please do not link directly to the buttons on cybercatholic.com. If you need your image hosted contact Joshua Leblanc. If you need a button resized to fit your sidebar then contact me.
A special thanks goes to Joshua Leblanc of CyberCatholics.com who makes the awards possible in the first place. This year he had great programming help for the site from CoreB.
13 comments
Congrats, Jeff and others! Much applause!
Thanks for posting the results. A whopping 3 of my votes were winners. I do better at guessing the Oscars, but so much worse in the voting booth that no one has yet been able to blame a government official on my vote!
I notice you designed buttons for the voting and you win too. Hmmm!
Congrats.
Jeff, you definitely deserve this award, for at least two reasons. One is that you write the funniest blog. But secondly, you consistently point to other funny blogs and promote them. You’re a great sport and a good example of cooperation in St. Blog’s. Congratulations! Happy Lent!
Jester: Congratulations! Thank you for all of your work on the blog award buttons etc.
Thanks for the compliment. And congrats!
Talking about humor in the Catholic life would be fun sometime–as a blog feature or something. I admit thinking “Hey, I did well in the smart aleck award category” isn’t exactly edifying (and did cross my mind), but on the other hand, appropriate light-heartedness at the right time can be an encouragement to faith and refkect Christ’s ultimate victory.
Or, maybe I’m kidding myself, and it just feels good to laugh sometimes. 🙂
Congratulations! You definitely deserve it!
Hey, my God laughs, and so does yours…. He made me, didn’t He?
Laughter and humor are part and parcel of humanity, and you had better believe a young Jesus giggling made his Mother smile, just like my little dude does for me.
So be proud of your sense of humor, and keep it up, for Jesus (as the Evangelicals like to say).
Sigh. More of the same. Why repeat winners?
If you really want folks to take this seriously every year, you must get rid of the repeats. One blog, one category. There needs to be human editing in this process.
Congrats to NLM for getting all its readers to vote. Kinda obvious and embarrassing, I would say…
Gee, I read NLM all the time, and no one tried to pressure me. Should I feel left out?
Congrats!
Congrats! So, when do I get my $500 Home Depot gift card? 🙂
Congratulations.
So there aren’t any “informative and insightful” Catholics around?
Congratulations!