Josh of cybercatholics asked me to post the following information concerning both the winners and finalists in the 2005 Catholic Blog Awards. You can download the Winner or Finalist award button for each category here. He will leave them on the server for about a week so if you qualify get them now. If you need any help to resize the graphic to fit you columns let me know and I will resize them for you.
Here are some Lenten mediations from:
Christopher Blosser (from Ratzinger of course)
Jamie Blosser (from St. Augustine of course)
With the announced hiatus of Andrew Sullivan we have the timely release of Justin Katz’ NRO piece "One Man’s Marriage Trap" on his blog Dust in the Light. This article is a good look at the history of Andrew Sullivan and the same-sex marriage debate. This is a good case study of how some bodies conclusion that homosexual activity is a good and how it affects most other opinions. For Mr. Sullivan his identifying himself primarily as a homosexual is like how a large mass distorts the fabric of space around it. Nothing comes close to interfering with that identify without be conformed around it.
This year’s Catholic Blog Awards are now accepting nominations until February 4th at 12:00 noon EST..
Here are the results from last year awards.
Justin Katz posts an interview he did with the Boston Globe’s token conservative Jeff Jacoby. The interview is at the group blog Anchor Rising. It is an Interesting interview since it covers many topics from his being the lone conservative there to his role of overseer for the Huntington Theatre Company.
Also worthwhile is Justin’s piece yesterday at NRO that Marriage-amendment supporters have no cause for disappointment in the president.
Justin has been very generous in links back to me on his primary blog Dust in the Light and I have not reciprocated as much as I should have. The problem is that his research and analysis is just so excellent on a day-to-day basis that it is hard to separate the cream from the cream for special highlighting. Especially good is his following of the same-sex marriage debate.
Welcome NRO’s The Corner’s readers and thanks to Kathy Jean Lopez for linking to my post on the controversy over the alleged support of condoms by Spain’s Catholic Conference’s spokesman.
Some might remember my Avazon.com parody that included this Corner related item.
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You can also check out my best parodies of 2004 here.
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although his topic was what issues Pope John Paul II’s successor will face, George Weigel told a Washington audience that after an eight-day visit to Rome he is convinced that as the pope, who is 84 and in frail health, enters the 27th year of his pontificate he is still in full control of the papacy and his death is not imminent.
Before he talked about the next pope, Weigel examined the conclave that will elect him.
"It will be a conclave in which the legacy of John Paul II looms very large," the scholar and author told an audience of about 200.
He quoted an acquaintance who is an atheist: "In 1978, I could have cared less who the next pope would be.
Now it means something to me personally." [Source]
Tom of Disputations analyzes the three reasons used to support tortures and then provides an answer to them in a three part post. So like a Dominican to break down the analyses and then answer them Sed Contra.
Keven Miller at HMS Blog also looks at the issue and delves into the meaning of the paragraph in the Catechism on torture using Gaudium et Spes and Veritatis Splendor as a guideline.
Am I not in on the joke or is this a new form of blog torture.If you go to E-Pression all you see are the words "Enjoy the Silence", yet her RSS feed shows that she has has been posting consistenly lately. I am not getting my daily recommened allowance of O.O. quotes, though I could glean one from the RSS feed.
O.O. says, "I’m so hungry I could eat … Ghandi."…