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Scandala

No, the title's not a typo. It's Latin. "Scandal" comes from "scandalum". It's means "stumbling block", "temptation", or "trap". With all the talk of priestly impropriety and pro-choice Catholics, it's easy to miss more ordinary forms of scandal. Each one of us can be a stumbling block to someone else's faith. Non-Catholics, and non-Christians in general, see us as representatives of the Church. Our pompous self-righteousness doesn't jive well with Christ's message, and we look like hypocrites as a result.

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St. Blog’s in the News

Curt
Jester reports
that St. Blog’s Parish was mentioned in a recent Washington
Post article
. Go us. 🙂

As a student, [Jason Steffens] devoted five to 20 hours a week to his blog, he said. But now that he has a newborn and a new job, he said his blogging time has been greatly reduced. Steffens said in an e- mail that he is one of the few “Christian bloggers who does not mind being called a ‘fundamentalist.’ “

In cyberspace, religious denominations tend to stick together. But the spatial realities of distance and borders do not apply. [Kathy Shaidle], for instance, is Canadian. But this self-described “ugly Ann Coulter of Canada” often comments about American politics and provides links to articles that concur with her conservative views. Shaidle said that most of her readers are American.

Catholic Carnival, Where Art Thou?

Why is there no Catholic carnival? Jollyblogger, a nice guy and a good
blogger, is organizing a Carnival of the Reformation. We need a
Carnival of the Counter-reformation! I don’t mean that in a spiteful
“me too” way. Carnivals are an excellent way to share ideas and promote
blogs.

From what I’ve seen in the blogosphere, the Protestants are beating the
pants off us. We’re fewer in number. We spend more time knocking each
other or the Church than defending the Faith. We are barely computer
literate, and in some cases borderline luddite. Where has “the new
evangelization” JP2 called for gone? Apparently not very far.

Holy Blog Exposure, Batman!

I got myself listed in the Blogdom of God alliance. Like any obsessed blogger, I check my incoming links frequently. Imagine my surprise when I when from 33 links to over 300! Now, TTLB lists me as a Large Mammal. Obviously, that greatly exaggerates my real ability to influence. Ales Rarus has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few months, but I’m still a nobody. This got me thinking.

Getting additional blog exposure is great, but what’s the cost? TTLB Ecosystem was set up to help people keep track of their influence and popularity. With alliance blogrolls listing hundreds of people we might never visit, has the system lost its meaning or usefulness?

What are your thoughts? Do you belong to an alliance? Run one? What’s your take?

Help Make Blogs More Visible!

(Thanks, Thirsty, for linking to GoMeme
1.0
)
[None of the below text, except my URL, is my own. It’s part of a cool experiment going on at Minding the Planet. – Funky]

There are by some estimates more than 3 million weblogs. But most of them get no
visibility in search engines. Only a few “A-List” blogs get into the top
search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of blogs just don’t
get noticed. But this posting could solve that. Let’s help the smaller blogs get
more visibility!

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