AmericanPapist Summer Shout-Outs

Several folks have been alerting me to their wonderful blogs and I've had to let them stack up until I had a chance to check them all out. Here they are!

Ryan Lobato has decided that "the one thing the internet needs is yet another Catholic blog with a funny Latin name" but has actually gone a step further and compiled links to as many free Catholic MP3 files he can find. See a need, fill a need! Go visit Sonitus Sanctus.

Elizabeth Andrew is beginning her post-college pro-life career. Best of luck!

Fr. Edward Seagriff gets a kick out of the PPOTD and has a fine parish/resource website.

And finally, a very unique (and exciting) blog by Brendan Koop and his family: Ecclesia Domestica.

"We are building a home in Ham Lake, MN over the next 2 years and have been amazed at the work of the Holy Spirit in the genesis of our project and how it may apply to Catholic families all over the country. We are planning a radically Catholic home, with a designed homschool area and a chapel, a home designed for the family as the "domestic church."

My younger brother, a graduate of Harvard with a Master's degree in architecture, is our architect. This is going to be a serious project that I hope has repercussions elsewhere in inspiring other families to build architecturally designed homes, or remodel their home, or even adapt their existing home to be a fortress of holiness and virtue.

The structure of the home won't make a family and its members more holy or virtuous, but it has been woefully overlooked as an important means of enhancing these goals. There will be more to come on the blog in the future in regard to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in this endeavor, but I strongly believe the Lord wants to build up strong Catholic families to butress the attack on the family currently underway in the world, and home design to support that effort can be key."

Brendan further reports that in the first two weeks "we have already had over 1,000 unique visitors and over 1,250 hits! We've had comments from England, Arizona, an architecture student from Notre Dame, and even an Anglican who says he's interested in the project."

I'm always on the look-out for good Catholic blogs, drop me a line sometime!