And on and on it seems.

So many good things to blog about and so little time.

Topics like:

• The NY Press newspaper that ran a cover and article about the 52 funniest things about the upcoming death of the Pope.
• The new weekly catechetical talks I am going to start arranging at my parish.
• The health and suffering of the Holy Father.
• The constant back and forth between Catholics who are social and economic conservatives vs. Catholics who are social and economic liberals, all claiming orthodoxy for themselves and hypocrisy or heterodoxy for the the others. See a blogpost over at Open Book by Amy Wellborn for some good examples here. These are just the latest I have seen. Lots of other examples.
• Lent and its meaning and what I am encountering this year.
• Recent Yahoo group “discussions” with someone claiming to be a cradle Catholic and still a Catholic, yet using every fundamentalist/anti-Catholic tactic in the book to disprove the primacy of Peter, his residency in Rome and a host of other topics.
• Recent theological discussions at work that have been truly fascinating with a co-worker that is Baptist with a lapsed Catholic wife (now Baptist) and Catholic in-laws.

Better get back to work…

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But tonight I was watching the chat window available to the virtual pew-sitters as he was doing his thing and it crossed my mind that I see a lot of the same comments each week. Lots are meant as prayer. Others as emotional outcries. Some as simple comments.

But still they are similar and consistently so at that. Most of these people are going to be of the evangelical and fundamentalist stripe. The types that would likely give us Catholics some grief over our vain repetitive prayers. Yet I see the same things each week.

Are they secretly Catholics?

Do they realize they say/pray the same things each week?

Some seem to be sloganesque. Something that you would expect to see on a poster or sign.

Do they see us that way? Catholics certainly repeat the same prayers each week. Of course we do it mostly in context of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours and the Rosary. All chock-full of Scripture beginning to end. We intentionally say the same things. Do they? We have significant meaning behind all of them too.

Just an interesting thing I was thinking tonight. Anyone else notice this or have comment?

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Well, I guess it’s not a matter of enthusiasm so much as a hectic schedule. I had hoped when we opened the Maniacs Blog to the local core group, it would cover any lapse in blogging by any one of us.

So much for that.

I know that the three actual Catholics who blog here are super busy all the time. And HeathenBoy generally prefers to comment on others’ posts. Him being a Heathen and all.

Anyway, I am going to make a sincere and sustained effort to do some blogging here on out. Thinking about commentary on news articles and some exploration of my understanding of the Faith. Also thinking about some Catholic fiction and maybe my own conversion story.

Definitely more to come.

Also, in the next few weeks, I am going to get some new links on the right here and a link where you can buy CatholicManiac merchandise to help support our server and maybe to do some outreach and evangelization projects.

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