Blogworthies XLVII Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ Catholic Analysis, India Uncut, Witting Shire, Michelle Malkin, Fraters Libertas, Scylla & Charybdis, Discriminations, One....

Nice Start of the New Year Today, a surprise donation to start off 2005. Thanks, Faithful Reader! Also, some recent kind words from a fellow blogger: I may have been....

The Night Litany Twenty years ago, I compiled an Order for Night Prayer. Here are four litanies, to be used singly, from that order. (They are not, I suppose, litanies....

"Tremors of Doubt" David Hart, an Orthodox theologian, writes at OpinionJournal today in the wake of the tsunamis: .... The Christian understanding of evil has always been more radical and....

"Bless Me, Bishop, For I Back Sinning" Vide.

"A Unified Theory of the Old Media Collapse" A great article by Hugh Hewitt at The Weekly Standard, Dec. 28: .... Here's my first take on a theory. Call it....

Patterico Flays LAT Fine examples of why so much of mainstream media hates bloggers. Patrick Frey posts an almost-endless two-part exposition and analysis of political bias in the pages of....

Blogroll Additions I've added about 25 weblogs to Here a Blog, There a Blog. With the changes earlier this week, that's a net reduction of about twenty blogs in the....

Re: "Aliens Cause Global Warming" I'm late in blogging this nice message from a reader: I want to thank you for the link to Michael Chricton's Michelin lecture at CalTech,....

Against the Grain Smacks UK Guardian Christopher Blosser responds to a silly article in The Guardian.

Christmas Around the Parish Earl has a big round-up over at Times Against Humanity.

St. Blog's Prayer Network Vide. (Thanks, Steven.)

CNS Headline Ticker I've added a CNSNews Headline Ticker to the right-hand column on the main page. Feedback would be appreciated — especially if it causes any problems for your....

The Map Room A weblog about maps. Vide.

The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami A weblog with "News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts", including a list of Relief Organizations Working in the Disaster Area.....

"Letter To My Children" From the Foreward to Witness (1952) by Whittaker Chambers: I am sitting in the kitchen of the little house at Medfield, our second farm which is....

Steven Kiel Vide. (Thanks, Ryan.)

Madeleva, Meridian, and The Blog from the Core The World Wide Web sure does establish some unexpected connections. Lege. Confer.

A Couple of Looks at Blogging First, an article by blogger Ed Driscoll at TCS, yesterday (embedded ellipsis in original): For those of us Webloggers who track the media the....

Catholic Carnival X At Living Catholicism this week.

"Is Bush the Antichrist?" Oh, my.

The Real Meaning of Kwanzaa Kathy Shaidle's famous explanation. It's here and here and here. P.S. Here, too, which includes a photo and link to an interesting article.

Light Blogging I'm on vacation this week, and I'd like to do things I don't ordinarily get to do through the week. So, expect light blogging until the new year.....

Your Humble, Faithful Blogster has a feature article in the Mon Valley section of today's Tribune-Review.

Three by Madeleva VI Poems by Sister M. Madeleva, C.S.C. Dialogue A Word, a Word Thou, Lord, didst utter which Thy willing handmaid heard, And infinite, small Life within my....