Awesome video on the stimulus

You are misssing the event of the year...

H/T to Cannonball for reminding me of how unfortunate I am for not living in LA this week.
Some of the best are:
With Joy We Go to the Altar of God: The Entrance Rites
Ignite Your Spirit! Say "Yes" through Dance, Song and Prayer
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Prophetic Witness: Catholic Women's Strategies for the Church
Teaching the Mass in an Ecumenical Age
My Sister Is Annoying…
Care for Creation: Understanding the Earth as a Sacred Community
“Don't Be Stupid!” – Simplified Evangelization
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM)
Celebrating the Word with Children
Youth Day: Get Real! Talk to Me! Sell Me on It! What Up, Dog? Whad-up-wi-dat? Let’s Get It Going! Show Me!(young people aren't this stupid.)
Creating Vision, Engagement and Ownership in Today's Parish (my comment...Ownership? Good Lord help us)
Everything I Know about Sin I Learned from Zombie Movies
Liturgy as Love in Action -- Moving Our Faith (oh joy.)
Embodying Easter -- Dancing Resurrection (ack)
Eh. If you want to see the particulars, you can visit here.
If I don't laugh about this, I think I would cry.

The new Congress

The story Catholicism Top Faith in U.S. Congress caught my eye. For such a majority of Catholics in Congress, how did so many democrat/pro-aborts sneak in? Upon reading last month's issue of First Things, an article written by Richard John Neuhaus in his Public Square, How We Got to Where We Are, tells of the political party history of the US. In particular, how Catholics fit in to the landscape and the shift of the Democratic Catholics to the new conservative Republican right. It is an amazing overview of when the shift occurred and where we are as Catholics today. It is a great article if you have the chance or interest in picking up a copy. I find myself floundering the closer I get in my Catholic faith. There are more aspects of the Republican party that I find myself at odds over.

As a side note, the October issue has an amazing article by Joseph Bottum entitled When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano - Catholic Culture in America. This is available to read online and well worth the time spent. It was particularly emotional for me since I was personally effected by Vatican II and it's aftershocks.