{"id":2107,"date":"2005-09-22T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T11:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/blogging-around-4.html"},"modified":"2005-09-22T11:12:36","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T11:12:36","slug":"blogging-around-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/blogging-around-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogging around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning out the email box:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richleonardi.blogspot.com\/\">Rich Leonardi has a sharp new look<\/a> thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratzingerfanclub.com\/blog\/\">Christopher Blosser<\/a> (I mean..his blog has a new look)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billcork.blogspot.com\/\">Bill Cork is evacuating<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid all the really serious threats and destruction, I have to note a rather unfortunate Catholic apologetics group. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullnessoftruth.org\/\">Fullness of Truth<\/a> contacted me a while back and asked me to be a part of a Da Vinci Code event they were doing. Unfortunately, I&#8217;d already accepted another engagement for that weekend. Oh well, they said, please be a speaker at our October event on the &quot;New Evangelization.&quot; Sure, I said. <\/p>\n<p>Well, the second event, while indeed in October, was planned for New Orleans (Kenner, actually). Umm&#8230;cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The Da Vinci Code event was to be this weekend&#8230;in Houston. I feel so badly for them! Talk about frustration!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theanchoressonline.com\/2005\/09\/22\/praying-with-the-cloud-of-witnesses\/\">The Anchoress would like us to join in storming heaven&#8230;along with a cloud of witnesses&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/romancathanachronism.typepad.com\/jumping_without_a_chute\/2005\/09\/any_extra_rosar.html#comments\">A contact with a parish in Guantanamo Bay is asking for rosaries and other Catholic goods..<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning out the email box: Rich Leonardi has a sharp new look thanks to Christopher Blosser (I mean..his blog has a new look) Bill Cork is evacuating Amid all the really serious threats and destruction, I have to note a rather unfortunate Catholic apologetics group. 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