Many of you know of Fr. Robert Barron, the excellent preacher and teacher from the Archdiocese of Chicago.  He has many video and audio clips at his website, some available for sale. EWTN is broadcasting one of his series, “Conversion” this week at 3am(!) and 6:30 pm.
Also available is “Faith Clips” – a set of short, concise answers to fundamental questions on faith, suitable for RCIA, adult faith formation, confirmation and youth catechesis. More information here, where you can view some sample clips and also read, via a pdf file, all of the questions included.

Speaking of video, there’s a new episode (#8) of That Catholic Show online – this one’s on Confession.
America Magazine (on its very well-done recently redesigned website)  has a discussion about a newly-aired documentary on the “Camden 28” (the doc aired earlier this week on PBS, and because I’m lame on posting these days…well, you see what happens.) More on the history of the protests and what followed here.
Crisis Magazine is, as most of you know, no longer a printed object – it exists online, with new material posted every day, blogs, etc. Inside Catholic is here.
The bloggers at the blog on Catholic legal theory, Mirror of Justice, have published a statement the situation at Ave Maria School of Law.
Finally, and speaking of protests, folks in Aurora, Illinois are working and praying like mad to keep a Planned Parenthood facility which would provide abortions out of their community. The website detailing their efforts is here. In addition, this blogger is keeping track, and here has a powerful post on what pro-lifers do about all those babies they only care about before birth:

In a lukewarm attempt to show the proportion of one’s pro-life stance equaling the number of children adopted, the question, “How many children have YOU adopted?” has been the mantra of the pro-life opposition. It seems the pro-abortion crowd movement has birthed a new sibling (particularly when the pro-lifer in question HAS one or more adopted children) for this question, “Why don’t you spend your time and energy helping the children who are already born?” After emitting a loud sigh, I spent a few moments thinking about the protesting pro-lifers I know. Far from the “religious zealot circus freak show” label firmly in place by the PP contingent, these are just your average hard-working, concerned citizens, who when they aren’t busying themselves with their protest shenanigans are:

• coordinating efforts to bring food and shelter to the people (predominantly women and children) of our community at the local shelter and food pantries
• acting as foster parents for days, weeks, months and sometimes years to care for children who, if all goes well, will be reunited with their birth family
• organizing small groups in their churches, in their neighborhoods to minister to mothers and provide support and encouragement through their childbearing and childrearing years
• adopting a child or two (or nine–Hi Mom!) in order to give the child and the birth parents a chance to become the person God calls them to be
• babysitting for young, single mothers while they finish their college or, perhaps, high school degree
• mentoring, loving, giving, donating selflessly of all the time-talents-and-treasures they have been given–rather than take the easy way out for themselves and demand that women “in trouble” have abortions to avoid having yet one other person to help

And just because this life-affirming lifestyle allows for so much “me” time, these people, who devote their *extra* time to “extremist” protest activities are busy preparing to help–AGAIN!Read more about Saturday morning’s “Jericho March” here and the concurrent pro-life baby shower to assist three local crisis pregnancy centers here.