I've started reading a new publication, and I'm recommending it to readers: Catholic Men's Quarterly. I received sample issues in the mail two weeks ago, and I was impressed. Drink, humor, history, travel, theology. Each issue is 44 pages, and subscriptions are only $20 a year.
And you can do me a favor. If you mention my name or this blog when you subscribe, I receive a cut of the proceeds. You might call it "contingency-based advertising." When approached by CMQ, I liked the idea. When I saw the publication, I loved the idea.
Also: It looks like I'll start writing for CMQ with a piece in the next issue about my alma mater, Notre Dame; the Amish; and St. Anne's Chapel. A piece, in other words, about my backyard.
For the rest of the week, I plan to run CMQ excerpts, especially passages from one of its regular features, "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion," like this one:
The love of such as Chesterton and Belloc of both smoking and drinking are very well known; it was even said by their contemporaries that the Chesterbelloc had misheard the Creed, and thought it demanded belief in 'One, Holy, Catholic, and Alcoholic Church.'
