CATHOLIC STUFF: Tim Drake has a whole passel of interesting stuff over at his blog–responses to the questions he asked various Catholic bloggers. I have to say that I really don’t notice the “narcissism” of blogs–if somebody bores me, I skip him–but the points about time-management are well taken. Perhaps that issue explains the departure of Mike Hardy from the blogosphere. Come back little Sheba! Personally, I doubt he will be able to resist at least firing off the occasional email or turning up in a comments box. I hope so anyway. And John Da Fiesole is right in his reasoning about the use of the atomic bomb–we can’t make the utilitarian calculus of sacrificing some innocents for others. We can pursue justice–including killing the wrongdoers–but we can’t target those who have not done the wrong.

Here’s Dave Kopel’s Marylinks page–scads and scads and scads of links about the Mother of God. Lots of art, prayers, books, apparitions, scholarship, rosaries and “alternative rosaries” (like the Chaplet of the Five Wounds of God, or the Rosary of St. Joseph), doctrine (what’s up with the Immaculate Conception? why do Catholics believe Mary remained a virgin?), and much much more. (Mary in the Koran… Martin Luther’s devotion to Mary… what’s a scapular?…) Very very cool.