I was thinking about St.
Blog’s Parish this morning and I realized something. We need a patron saint.
Saint Isidore of Seville has been proposed as the patron saint of the internet,
but that’s for his learning and having written an encyclopedia. He wasn’t much like
a blogger. We need someone like a canonized version of G.K. Chesterton, a journalist,
author, and apologist.
Instead of St. Joseph the Worker Parish, we’d have Saint So-and-so the Blogger Parish.
Thoughts?
The Curt Jester has posted an excellent entry about the perils
of Christian punditry. At the end there’s a useful examination of conscience
for pundits.
For me, this is another
reminder that I need to be more gentle and forgiving in my criticisms.
“Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should
restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted.”
Galatians
6:1 (RSV)
Here are a couple new blogs by converts to Catholicism.
A Seminarian’s Journey
(Thanks to A
Saintly Salmagundi)
Musings of a Catholic Convert
(Thanks to Blogtones)
Whenever I move up the food chain in The
Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem, I check the incoming links to see who’s linking me.
Doing so I found a complimentary post at extreme
Catholic. Apparently I’m funny. Groovy 🙂
Also found in that post is a link to a cool aggregator of sorts for St. Blog’s sites
(which is how he found me). I wouldn’t have found him if he hadn’t found me.
As bloggers go, I’m still basically an infant. I haven’t been doing this very long
and I don’t really associate with the blogging crowd outside of a few sites on my
blogroll. In other words, I’m still learning a lot about this crazy little thing
called blog.
For instance, I’m just now discovering just how important comments are. I don’t
get many, so I suppose it’s understandable that I missed their full worth. Anyhow,
it seems clear that a blog without a comments system is only half a blog.
There is, IMHO, a fascinating discussion going on at GetReligion
about the impact, or lack thereof, of stories about the global priest scandal in
the Dallas Morning News.
There a few folks on my blogroll who I’d love to see weigh in on the issue, including
(but not limited to) Narwen,
Pontificator,
Fr. Mike, and
Jeff Miller,
The
Catholic gun didn’t go off: Silence greets Dallas News series
Once there was a man who lived in a lighthouse on the foggy Atlantic.
That’s the start of a very, very old sermon illustration. I thought of it this past
weekend as I read the first chunks of the sprawling Dallas Morning News reports
on the globalization of the clergy sex-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church.