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First Catholic Carnival

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Jay, from "Living Catholicism", has answered my call for a Catholic Carnival. 🙂

Basically, this is a Catholic-oriented version of the Christian Carnival (example here) that occurs weekly. It’s a great way to attract new readers to your blog – – and you’re likely to discover some Catholic blogs you haven’t heard about.

[T]he carnival will be a roundup of Catholic posts from the last seven days. You submit your favorite post (along with the info below) and you’ll be included (as long as the post subject is of a Catholic nature). It’s a great way to find new readers. I also ask that you consider hosting the Catholic Carnival one week on your blog – it’s work, but rewarding work. 😉

Those that would like to participate, email the following to jay@LivingCatholicism.com:

Site Name
Site URL
Post Name (posted between 10/19 and 10/25)
Post URL (Permalink)
Post description

Please get it to me by 10 PM EST on Monday evening – I’ll post the Carnival on Tuesday. I’ll send out an email with a link when the Carnival is up. Let your friends know as well.

God bless,
Jay

 

Signal to Noise Ratio

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“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his
field;but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat,
and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared
also. And the servants of the householder came and said to him, `Sir, did you not
sow good seed in your field? How then has it weeds?’ He said to them, `An enemy
has done this.’ The servants said to him, `Then do you want us to go and gather
them?’ But he said, `No; lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along
with them. Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will
tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned,
but gather the wheat into my barn.'” – Matthew 13:26-30

Up from 10% in 2001, ~50% in 2003, spam now accounts for 60% of email. Would that we had effective means for burning such weeds.

Rabid Dogs

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Some people don’t care who gets trampled in the mad rush to uncover the truth.

There’s a side to RatherGate that not everyone knows about. Not everyone who said the memos were real were maliciously trying to deceive the public. Some people, like David Hailey, Utah State University associate professor of technical
communications, actually believed the memos to be real and wrote a paper attempting to prove it. This action was not well received, and Hailey’s reputation was dragged through the mud by the lynch mob looking for liberals to string up for daring to
trust the documents.

Bene Diction sums up the events nicely.

This is the bad side of blogging – the drunk driving so to speak – uncivil, hateful, vindictive, swarming.

Catch Phrase

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The description I use for this blog needs to be replaced with something catchier. Do any of my loyal readers have suggestions for a catchy "blurb" with which I might lure additional readers? Here are some good examples.

"Punditry, Parody, Polemics, Politics, Puns from a Papist Perspective" – The Curt Jester

"A former atheist who after spending forty years in the wilderness finds himself with both astonishment and joy a member of the Catholic Church. This blog presents my hopefully humorous and sometimes serious take on things religious, political, and whatever else crosses my mind." – The Curt Jester

"Devoted to the propagation of Evangelical Christianity, and Conservative Politics. These two taboo subjects at the dinner table are mixed into the same meal." – Christian Conservative

"So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!" – Mark Shea

"Various ruminations on Catholicism, satire, esoterica, hagiography, nuttiness, culture, etc." – Saintly Salmagundi

"Theomorph responds to Christianity, religion in general, cultural silliness, and whatever else frustrates him during his sojourn here on spaceship Earth." – Theomorph

Let your imaginations run wild and let me know what you come up with! 🙂