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Some Singapore undergrads did a survey on blogging and blogging ethics late last winter. Here are the results.

A lot of you will undoubtedly find this new site, The Catholic Report, handy. Lots of links, plus a news feed. Drudge with a rosary.

Reader Tim sends along a link to one of those "not surprising but still…" kind of things. In brief: they’re already planning how to get your baby to buy stuff. Who is Gen We? A younger generation on the cusp of its hyperconsumptive years, group-oriented yet individualistic members of a global nation A generation wielding…

From this site, thanks to reader Tom

Dawn Eden quotes liberally from and links to a horrifying, sobering blog entry by a medical student who performed her first abortions The emotional distance of this woman is horrifying. This is real, not an idea. This is life and death, and our chipper doctor is kinda weirded out, and manages to find much more…

I would love to see Eve Tushnet debate/discuss life with Andrew Sullivan. It would be very illuminating, I think. Someone set this thing up.

This could be a reality show. Or one of those travelogue shows on PBS. Today, the Holy Father visits the botanical gardens. Other travelers follow, mesmerized by his fashion sense.

…and thinks it’s a sign. Push us back up the list! Who needs that Catechism, anyway? Seriously – if you know anyone involved in Young Adult or College Campus Ministry, consider passing on our link to them and letting them know about our books. Could be a helpful resource. It’s why we wrote them, after…

an Italian priest’s actions makes the London Times A PARISH priest has refused to give an Italian woman a Christian funeral because she had “lived in sin”. Father Giuseppe Mazzotta, parish priest at Marcellinara, near Catanzaro in Calabria, said that he had denied a Christian funeral to Maria Francesca Tallarico, who died of breast cancer…

(If you’re wondering why, it’s because it’s the 100th anniversary of his birth) Another America article: In method, Balthasar preferred an evocative and untidy richness over the kind of objective systematization characteristic of many great Christian thinkers. He suggested that Christian truth is “symphonic,” less a collection of positions and doctrines than an organic, dynamic…

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