Be there or be square. 🙂
Put on your Sunday’s best kids, we’re going to Finnegan’s Wake!
WHAT: Pittsburgh Blogfest 4
WHEN: Wednesday, November 9th 2005, 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM and beyond!
WHERE: Finnegan’s Wake (near PNC Park, 20 General Robinson St., North Shore, 412-325-2601), in the Pub Room
WHO: All of you bloggers!
This Frappr map thing is really making the rounds. I originally heard about it from Fr. Jim Tucker (Dappled Things). My map can be found here. Catholic Rage Monkey has one too. If you know of any other St. Blog’s Frappr maps, please let me know. 🙂
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Catholic school teacher in Sacramento who was fired for her work at Planned Parenthood. Well, the daughter of the woman who reported the teacher to the administration has a blog. Poor Katelyn has been insulted and threatened by some really awful commenters. It seems diversity of opinion is just fine with Loony Leftists until they encounter ones that clash with their PC fantasy worldview. Moonbats have a better Inquisition than the Church ever had.
I propose that we start a blogswarm supporting Katelyn. Think of it as a distributed "thinking of you" card. 🙂
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Addendum 10/26/05: It should be noted that Mrs. Sills did not herself fire Ms. Bain. Acting on her conscience, she passed on information she believed to be relevant to her bishop and he made the decision.
Update 11/02/05: Here’s the text of Bishop Wiegand’s open letter regarding the dismissal.
This post is an answer to N.Z. Bear’s call for blogger’s positions on Harriet Miers.
I oppose the Miers nomination.
She’s not qualified for the job. I’d much prefer a constitutional expert, with or without bench experience, or an experienced judge. My opinion is irrespective of her opinions regarding santity of life, homosexual marriage, etc. A competent interpreter is more important to me than a judge who thinks Roe V. Wade should be overturned (or at least given tighter parameters).
If you’d like to know how other bloggers feel, click here.
I've a lot of abusive posts and comments in St. Blog's Parish of late and it really bothers me. Normally when Christians are at each other's throats I point out Galatians 5:13-15. However, a reading from a recent daily mass caught my eye.
"Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." – Ephesians 4:29-32
I don't want point out splinters in my brothers eyes when I carry a log in my own, so I'll not mention by name or link who the offenders are. I can only hope they read this post and get the message.
BTW, Richard Hall seems to be thinking similar things about Christian bloggers in general.
"[F]or every person that shouts 'Amen!' there's another shouting 'No way!' The Body of Christ is divided and weakened. ('Can the eye say to the hand, I don't need you?') If we fall out of fellowship with one another, we all lose."