For those of you who haven’t heard, Charles de Nunzio has entered the company of traditionalist bloggers with his provocative Annals of the 9th Crusade. He is a serious and careful writer to whom the frivolity of blogging must not come easy. Neverthless, you won’t want to miss his early entries. See especially his comments on the cultural import of The Passion of the Christ.

Michael Brendan Dougherty, another talented writer and friend, has launched a new online magazine called The New Fugitive (now defunct!). His essay “How I Became a Paleo-Conservative” should be required reading for every American male under thirty.

Tomorrow morning the Catholic Professional and Business Breakfast Club of Sacramento will be hosting Joseph Pearce, who is going to be speaking on C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church. I’m greatly looking forward to his talk and hope that he will autograph one of my books. :-)

There is yet hope for the great city of San Francisco. On April 2-3, the jewel of the Pacific was host to approximately 1500 orthodox Catholics, led by two local bishops, rallying for marriage and family here. (Mr. Keilholz, were you there?) There were counter-protests by the usual suspects, but I am told their presence was inconsequential (in spite of inordinate media coverage).

The visions attributed to Blessed Anne Katherine Emmerich are even more timely than I had previously realized.

What did you think of The Passion of the Christ?