Animals strike curious poses;

They watch the blog–

The blog between me and you…

Amptoons: Two threads on non-superhero comics recommendations.

Dappled Things: His sermon on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe: We are all guadalupanos! “The first thing we need to consider is what is important to the Virgin. The Virgin appeared to a poor Indian and spoke to him in the only language he knew, not the conquerors’ Spanish, but the native Nahuatl. She came not to bring more oppression, but to bring a people to the Gospel. Through her intervention, Latin America became Catholic and traded in the bloody cult of the local gods for the merciful religion of the Virgin’s Son. Throughout the years, the image of this Virgin would accompany Mexicans in their greatest needs and stand alongside the poor and marginalized without fail. To be guadalupano, then, means in some sense to follow the Virgin’s lead. It means to stand up for the weak, the powerless, and those stripped of their rights: the unborn children menaced by abortion; those without food to eat; those without places to live; the people afflicted by war, persecution, and violence of every kind; immigrants, with and without papers; whoever is forced to the margins of society and left at the mercy of the stronger. If these people are important to her, then they had better be important to us.” more

Mark Shea: Quite a lot of interesting stuff, including how Zell Miller became pro-life.