We were in Blogwatch–
Let’s do it,

Let’s break the law….

Amy Welborn:

There’s a lot of discussion and (justifiable) fretting out there about why people leave the Cathoilc Church. It’s a discussion we’ve had here, and will continue to have. But I want this thread to be something different, something I don’t think I’ve seen before.

If you’re a “revert”–why? What brought you back?

I’d imagine for most it will be a combination of things. And it doesn’t matter why you “left”–although that will probably come into the discussion, too. What I mean to say is that if you “left” because after your parents had you baptized they never set foot in a Catholic church again, your story is just as interesting as that of the person who consciously left, as an adult.

more! more!

Cinecon: Victor is doing his year’s-best list, and it’s pretty fascinating. We have very different tastes, I think; but I read a Village Voice review of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, and it made me want to run as far in the other direction as possible, whereas Victor’s review makes me really wish I’d seen it.

Daniel Mitsui: In which St. Brigid prays for awesome.

First Things: A reply to Fr Oakes’s post about heresy and whatnot. I realized, reading this, that I liked the initial post for all the Therese-y-ness, and I didn’t pay tons of attention to the wittering about definitions of “heresy” or whatever. So I’ll just say I think you can agree with both Fr Oakes and Stephen Barr, and I think that’s where I am.