What I'm Reading - Today's News of Note

Today is crunch time on many fronts for me, so here's what I would normally blog about, but must instead simply point you towards. If time permits, I might come back and revisit some of these topics.

• Diogenes on NCR's all-but-explicit endorsement of Barack Obama (My take here. I must also add - to their own credit, they published my negative comment and many, many others)
• John Allen predicts 2009 is shaping up as a 'Year of Africa' in Catholicism
• Fordham Honors Justice Breyer with Ethics Award as Faithful Catholics Voice Criticism (Cardinal Egan certainly wasn't pleased)
• SDG finishes his comprehensive argument for why voting third party might not be the most prudential option for Catholics this year
• Two Catholic priests killed in Moscow (strange)
• LifeNews editorial: Pro-Life Voters Must Back McCain to Stop Abortion
• CatholicVote.com's "Barack Obama on the Issues of Importance to Catholics" (CV's Brian Burch also has a good summary of "Scranton Bishop Blasts ‘Catholic’ Groups"

... and don't worry, the time away has been well spent - as you shall see!

Also consider this today's open comment thread.