Here is a real cool telescope-to-microscope animation from 10 million light years away down to quarks. [Tip of the Jester hat to The Paragraph Farmer]
A new fine young weblog "The Cafeteria is closed" has opened up a cafepress shop with some shirts available. I especially like this one which says The Cafeteria is Closed,. eat what’s on the table kids! This new blogger is blogging at a prestigious pace and I hope that like others that started off with so many posts we don’t soon see the notorious "I have been a terrible blogger in not blogging for a while." Anyway give a warm St. Blogs welcome to Gerald Augustinus.
Kids say the Kids say the darndest things at Unam Sanctum with a new title for the Pope.
Barbara Nicolosi blogs a friends of her letter to the Hollywood Reporter in regards to Kingdom of Heaven.
The Chesterton Diet at Flying Stars.
On Being Neither Liberal nor Conservative by Fr. James V. Schall, S. J. at Ignatius Insight.
George Weigel Baseball, theology, and guilds
And if you are as cheap as me here is some excellent free software.
Paint.NET A classroom project to provide a photoediting program with advanced features comparable to Photoshop. Pretty powerful and it works with layers
FileZilla An excellent open source FTP client that is both powerful and easy to use.
Web-Email-Cloaker Simple tool provides code to cloak HTML email addresses to prevent harvesting by spam spiders. You download the program enter your email and paste the results into your blog template.
Cacciaguida caught a pre-release screening of "Kingdom of Heaven" and gives us a review and it is about as I suspected – a European Christian men behaving badly epic.
Crisis Magazine did a good short piece previously called The Real History of the Crusades
Catholic Carnival XVIII is up at DeoOmnisGloria.com.
Aristotle Esquerra of "Confessions of a Recovering Choir Director" is raising funds that himself and four other young adults can take part in World Youth Day 2005. As for me I am still waiting for World Middle Age Day.
Ignatius Press is now distribution a new film on Bernadette from French filmmaker Jean Delannoy. Here is some more info.
From Jean Delannoy, one of France’s foremost filmmakers, comes this top quality feature film production of the story of St. Bernadette and the apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes. Actress Sydney Penny gives a beautiful performance as Bernadette, and the rest of the cast is equally superb. Also stars Roland Lesaffre and Michele Simonnet. It is highly recommended by the Vatican as a “sensitive portrayal of a very moving story that deserves a wide audience.” Shot on location in France with outstanding cinematography and a beautiful music score, this is the film that was chosen to be shown daily at the shrine in Lourdes.
Once upon a midnight dreary has a good roundup of Pope Benedict XVI editorial cartoons. This one is my favorite.
SecretAgentMan outdoes himself in the most accurate translation of what happened on Meet the Press this Sunday. I heard a large chunk of this played on the radio
and SAM has nailed Russert’s very annoying attitude and his post kept me laughing all the way through.
Christopher at Against the Grain provides an excellent roundup of various statements the then-Cardinal Ratzinger made in the past concerning the Jewish people. Christopher also has up the Pope Benedict XVI Fan Club page and I just have to get me one of those "Cafeteria Is Closed" large coffee mugs.
Amy Welborn posts a part of today’s General Audience where the Pope explains the reason he choose Benedict. To see a video of this event go to tv.reuters.com and look under Channel and Vatican for "Pope’s First General Audience."
Both Tom at Disputations and Oswald Sobrino of Catholic Analysis of the concept that the new Pope thinks that the Church must become smaller and purer.
Jayson Franklin has a fun Catholic Podcast called The Catholic Cast. In his latest podcast he interviews David Bawden aka Pope Michael I. This is a very interesting interview that shows that "Pope Michael I" is a very nice but deluded man. Victor Lams has also composed some theme music for Jayson which is pretty good.
Jayson previously had elicited names for his podcast when he considered changing the name of his show. I had suggested to him “Pod Casti Connubii” in honor of Pius XI encyclical.
You can find other Catholic Podcasts available at Disciples with Microphones. Personally I am waiting for Fr. Sibley to come out with a PODcast in which each week he details the latest sighting o Pious Overly-Devotional(POD) behavior. Though he has been making available MP3s of his homilies (which are excellent and delivered in the manner of Fr. Corapi).
If you are unfamiliar with the term Podcasting then information is available here.
Med student Dev Thakur is back with a newly renamed blog "Against a dictatorship of relativism." Great title and a nice Mitre tip to the words of our new Pope!
Also check out apologist extraordinaire Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio site called The Crossroad Initiative which also include a page on our new Pope. You can also sign up for their weekly email list which includes commentary on the liturgical readings each Sunday.
Here are some blogs that I have added to my blogroll.
I went to RCIA with Rachel who run’s the History Buff blog. Her conversion story here proves Cardinal Newman’s adage about "to be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant." She also maintains www.thehistorybuff.com.