This won’t turn into a family blog, I promise. To round out the pictures of the Johnson family, here are Charlie, 4 1/2, and Christopher, 10 months.
I realize Christopher’s skin color looks strange, but I’m still learning how to use our new digital camera.
Author: Eric Johnson
St. Linus Review wants you
I received this in my Inbox:
Hi Eric,
I was wondering if you could post an announcement for me on your blog. I’m doing some publicity for a literary journal of orthodox Catholic poetry and prose that will be started up next year. We’re looking for contributors and subscribers. The journal is called the St. Linus Review. Here’s the website: www.stlinusreview.com. Thanks!
Sarah DeCorla-Souza
Sounds like a good idea to me. I think it’s a little ambitious to expect that the prose must be under 350 words — that’s practically haiku! — but I’m not much into fiction, so my opinion doesn’t count for much. Good luck to you, Sarah, and all your collaborators and contributors.
Open Source Shakespeare open for business
Open Source Shakespeare, a Web site created for my graduate thesis, is available for your perusing. It’s in “beta” condition, meaning it’s not quite finished. However, I wanted to get some comments about it, so be nice. Also, maybe when Google spiders Catholic Light, it will start indexing OSS because of the link in this post. I submitted the URL several days ago, and Google still hasn’t visited.
Picture of my darling daughter
Time for a break from controversy. Here’s a photo of my daughter Anna before the preschool Christmas concert tonight. On Saturday, she’ll be 3 1/2.
Cardinal Martino, explained by Michael Novak
Michael Novak puts Cardinal Martino’s comments in perspective, saying the bishop “has not ceased being an embarrassment to his superiors.”
The article is worth reading, as is just about everything Novak writes, but here’s the most intriguing passage:
The big Vatican news of the past month has been the major change in the way Islamic terrorism has been directly confronted, with gloves-off honesty in the Jesuit periodical Civilta Cattolica, whose pages are always cleared by the secretariat of state. Over a third of the Christians of the Middle East have been driven out during the past decade, the journal reports, and it lists many abuses by extremists, against the background of much greater tolerance in the past. It also analyzes carefully just how the extremists function in practice.