Catholics, Fundamentalists and Islam Oh My

Hello:

Well my Halloween party (last Saturday) appears to have been a success. I didn't get home until 4 AM (it isn't unusual for me to be getting up at 4 so that was VERY late for me). All but a handful of guests wore costumes and most everybody took a turn at the scare-e-okee. Once again I seem to have made the drinks A.) Too strong and B.) Too plentiful, I ended up driving a friend home. I think I am going to hold off on posting pictures from this year's party so that I'll have something to post next year. I will go ahead and post a few from last year.

During the party, there were several people dressed as Catholic clergy (which led to the phrase "The Monk is Drunk and needs you to drive him home"). Surprisingly, this led to a number of serious conversations that usually started with the sexual abuse scandals and then branched out to the Church in general. I off-handedly mentioned the BlogExplosion billboard I am running over at Mormon Meanders and the conversation turned to contrasting the Catholic faith and a variety of others. PLEASE NOTE - this was a very fun party and these conversations were not typical. Anyway, when I got in Monday morning - I pulled out my trusty Liguori Publications catalog and found a number of titles that deal with Catholicism and other religions. We carry five titles (ok I'm counting one in English and in Spanish) dealing with Catholicism and Fundamentalists and two dealing with Catholicism and Islam. I haven't come close to reading all of these, but present them as an FYI. We have titles that discuss a variety of other faiths and philosophies, but I will save them for another time.

I believe that there has been a real deterioration in the quality of the posts I have been submitting to this BLOG (which considering what I thought of them when I started is saying something). As a result, I am planning on cutting way back on my update frequency. Most of them will still feature links to Liguori products and issues, I am trying to benefit my company afterall, but it is important to me that the posts be at least moderately interesting to a few people. There are plenty of sites out there that are just commercials or billboards and that itsn't what I want this to be. I'm taking tomorrow and Friday off. I hope to work on some writing projects but we'll see where the weekend takes me.

Peace,

P. Del Ricci - Dark Glass