I don't plug good Catholic resources as often as I ought, so I'll take a small corrective step: Check out The Crossroads Initiative. It's run by Marcellino d'Ambrosio, a highly-intelligent and devout Catholic.
I'm humorously reminded of an incident with one of my readers at Catholic Exchange. She wrote an email highly critical of one of my columns (and me in general, if I recall correctly) and suggested that I learn more from the approach of kindly Dr. d'Ambrosio. I was half-tempted to write back that Dr. d'Ambrosio enjoys my blog, but I didn't want to drag the good gentleman through the muck.
Catholic emailers, by the way, can really shake a person's faith. I know nuts come in all shapes and sizes, but I've never stopped being amazed at the number of prickly Catholics I encounter in the cybersphere. When I was writing a weekly column for Catholic Exchange, I would receive weekly barbed missives from Catholics who styled themselves as devout and orthodox and simultaneously declared me offensive and beneath contempt. I generally took such things in good humor. By putting my writings in different magazines and websites, I invite criticism. That's part of the deal, but it still makes me shake my head.
American Idol apparently kicked off an overweight black woman who posed topless for an adult site, but it allowed Antonella Barba to stay on after racy photos of her surfaced on the Internet. Rosie O'Donnell says the difference in treatment is "racist" and (tee hee) "weightest." I didn't even know there was such a word, except in satire of political correctness.
That's it for now. I have to get Abbie (12) to a band competition by 6:45 this morning.
