SoDakMonk has moved to blogspot. He old Crimsonblog has died, long live the new blog. The good news is that we now have an Atom feed for his site.
A couple of excellent posts from The Anchoress. One in response to the Time Magazine article about Protestants and the Virgin Mary and goes on to talk about Mariology and says "it allows me to think a little bit about how the Catholic church, more than any other institutional body in history, has uplifted women and encouraged them to live to their highest potential." She goes on to back this up withsome good examples.
In another post she answers some reader’s questions about orgies at Mass and other matters. Obviously at least one her readers had heard some versions of the stories from the dreadful nativist fiction "The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk." The original title of that book was actually "The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk as Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Life and Sufferings during a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery in Montreal."
Thomas Szyszkiewicz posts the full interview that he did with Our Sunday Visitor which is a background piece on Sr. Lucia. Some interesting information contained within.
John of Just Your Average Catholic Guy is back blogging after a prolonged absence. I guess the Nicene bloggers creed would include "I believe in the resurrection of the blog,"
Matt C. Abbott has a good overview article on cultural forces and the aftermath of Vatican II titled "How the Zeitgeist Affected the Catholic Church in the U.S. after Vatican II."
Gregg the Obscure is back blogging at Vita Brevis after a very extended blogging break. Gregg started blogging around the same time I did and it is good to see him back.
SoDakMonk does his first fisking with an article by John Allen on the annual Religious Education Congress in L. A.
Interesting background story of a very humble Catholic father of eight who was immortalized in the famous flag raising photograph on Iwo Jima.
Update: Lane Core Jr. posts some historical photos from the event.
Dale Price is in fine form with his fisk of NCR’s Joe Feuerherd whinny attack of Catholic Answers voting guide.
From Godspy via Being! or Nothingness is an interval with Bai MacFarlane on the subject of no-fault divorce. No-fault divorce was probably the most damaging idea to be foisted upon the family in the 20th century. It was presented as a minor change in the law that would in no way damage marriage or lead to more divorce. Does this argument sound familiar? Maggie Gallagher correctly says that the "more accurate term would be unilateral divorce on demand. It is also no surprise that no-fault divorce started in the sixties in California. Then California Governor Edmund Brown established a commission to make “a concentrated assault on the high incidence of divorce in our society and its often tragic consequences.” and as a result ended in the passing of no-fault divorce laws and divorce rates going through the roof. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. It must be quite comfortable to drive on the road to Hell since it has been repaved so many times.