Author: Steve

liked the idea of Church reform groups sprouting up to so much that he has sprouted his own.

a reader writes:

I’d rate CFAR as “does not contain nuts”. The spokesmen are – at least the ones I’ve heard of – orthodox lay Catholics who have done respectable work.
Not that they’re perfect: I think that essay by Tom Hoopes (“Smoke and Mirrors…”) is quite weak. He complains because the Dallas News reporter rounded 62% off and called it “two-thirds”. That sort of pettifoggery is, if anything, anti-persuasive.

Reader is referring to this piece that I linked to yesterday. The rating system, which I meant only as a joke, is posted here. Regardless of my original intent I think it’s going to have a life of its own!

put his email address on the site I would write to tell him to kiss my moose.

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My sarcasm aside I want to say with all respect and charity I think he would do well to show some integrity and honesty by posting his name and a means by which he can be contacted. Even those of us that write with a nom de cyber publish our email addresses. Pretentiously jabbering about grammatical mistakes a blogger made more than a month is obtuse. I’m done wasting bits and bytes on ye whose name may not be spoken!

Has anyone thought of writing up and profiling these start-ups and up-starts and posting the list online? I mean in a non-biased way – just stating the facts and letting readers decide for themselves if they are nuttier than something that is chock full o’ nuts. That would be a good project for someone with a bit time on their hands. Actually if you are reading this and in one of those groups please email me some info and I’ll try to pull this together. Contact info and URL would be ideal. If you know of any other groups please email me.

I am asking about this because I posted a link to Catholics for Authentic Reform without really looking into their ecclesiastical shtick. I’m not knocking them, I just didn’t have time to look and I should have. I want to be a bit more careful in the future and make sure I am not linking to Kreative Katholic Koncepts (thanks for that phrase, Alexandra!), The Peoples’ Front of Rome, the Roman Peoples’ Front, Catholics for the Liberation of Space Cabbage, or some such group. More on this later.

And if we must rate them we’ll use the following scale:
Does not contain nuts
May contain nuts
Slighty nutty bouquet with fruity overtones
Somewhat nutty and fruity
Flaky and nutty
Exceedingly fruity and nutty
Nuttier than a cheese log
Nutrageous

and let us know if you tried the recipe. I think the shredded potatoes would take too long to cook compared with the shredded spam and I’m not going to waste a perfectly good can of spam proving my theory!