Spanning the Globe To Bring You The Constant Variety Of PostsLike many of you, I affect a high-minded disdain for such things, but for all that I could not turn away from the spectacle. And, to be honest, I’m glad I didn’t. First, there was the young lady in a halter top with a sign reading 'Poland Loves Michael’ – that was almost worth the whole thing right there. Then, I got to see a mindlessly jubilant middle-aged blonde woman awkwardly release a white dove into the air. Sublime lunacy – in the end, that’s what Jacko’s all about.
- Thomas of 'Endlessly Rocking'
None. Why? Because "blog" covers a number of different formats. To criticize blogs for being free from traditional journalistic standards, for example, doesn't wash because most blogs aren't attempts to do journalism – they're opinion.
- Amy Welborn, on Ignatius Insight, answering the question "what are the problems with blogs?"
God bless anybody who happens to wander in! BTW, I'm doing OK in my wild-n-wacky little ecumenical world. Thank God for Francis de Sales and his uber-useful Introduction to the Devout Life. He's helped me weather attitudinal storms and harsh judgments, plus given sensible guidelines for avoiding scrupulosity and unnecessary guilt.
- Kathy the Carmelite, posting after a loooonnnng absence
I find it extremely annoying that (a) I loathe astrology and (b) I fit the Taurus personality almost exactly.)
- Bob of "Trousered Ape"
A Google search for "baby laughing in his sleep" yielded no results. I thought there should be at least one.
- explanation of blog title "Baby laughing in his sleep" at notgoodwithnames.typepad.com
In the ongoing dispute over whether burying a statue of St. Joseph is categorically superstitious, a few people have suggested rules for how to tell the difference between a superstitious act and a non-superstitious one. I don't know that I have a general rule that applies in all cases, but I do have an idea for a heuristic in the present controversy: if the person performing the act views it as a devotional act pleasing to the saint, intended as a concrete act of devotion in conjunction with asking for the saint's intercession, it is not superstitious. If the person performing the act views it as something that compels the saint to grant a wish like a genie summoned from a bottle, it is superstitious.
- Zippy of Zippy Catholic
On the flight to Atlanta, the safety briefing says federal regulations prohibit "conjugating" in the aisles.
- Terrence Berres of "The Provinical Emails"
What on earth is left for the groom to do?
- St. Augustine in "The City of God", mocking the pagan Roman marriage ceremony, which invoked one god for this and one god for that including the "god of erection" and "god of penetration"
The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when they might wish to do so. Yet they are always ready to exchange the quiet of contemplation for the works of mercy as soon as they perceive in their heart the invitation of Christ.
-- St. Anthony de Padua
For as Christ's sufferings overflow through us, so through Christ does overflow encouragment.
- St. Paul, 2 Cor 1:7
A life that is full of such extremes is emblematised perfectly in the popular image of him holding the Child Jesus. In St. Anthony, great learning met meekness, nobility met poverty, orthodoxy met charity, and miracles met faith: in the miraculous apparition of the Child Jesus, Heaven met earth. Of course, as any Catholic can tell you, Heaven meets earth everyday, in every Mass and every Communion; but not everyone receives such a confirmation of their faith in Christ. Sancti Antonii, ora pro nobis.
- Enbrethiel of Sancta Sanctis
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