{"id":11524,"date":"2011-07-28T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11524"},"modified":"2011-08-02T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T23:08:08","slug":"what-might-purgatory-be-like-for-catholic-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/07\/what-might-purgatory-be-like-for-catholic-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"What might Purgatory be like for Catholic bloggers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But it all sounds so same ol&#8217;, same ol&#8217;, y&#8217;know? Maybe Catholic bloggers will have to endure sufferings that are a bit more&#8230;I don&#8217;t know, personal. Custom-fit.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For instance &#8211; and I&#8217;m just imagining here &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0LarryD\u00a0&#8211; transcribe every issue of the National Catholic Reporter onto strips of bark using a piece of charcoal.<br \/>\n*\u00a0Fr Z\u00a0&#8211; drink instant coffee while blogging on a 386&#8230;with a dial-up connection.<br \/>\n*\u00a0Mark Shea\u00a0&#8211; chained at the ankle with Michael Voris (that\u00a0could\u00a0work both ways, I suppose).<br \/>\n* The writers at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/the-american-catholic.com\/\">The American Catholic<\/a> &#8211; recite every Vox Nova post in Shakespearean prose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole list from the <a href=\"http:\/\/actsoftheapostasy.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/bloggurgatory.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+ActsOfTheApostasy+(Acts+of+the+Apostasy)\">great LarryD of Acts of the Apostasy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now to add my own suggestions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/markshea.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Shea<\/a> &#8211; Locked in a \u00a0combos with 500 people calling him a liberal and another 500 calling him a conservative.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hancaquam.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fr. Phillip Neri Powell, OP<\/a> His purgatory would be something like being trapped in a gigantic library with no books on the shelves. \u00a0Kind of like the Twilight Zone episode &#8220;Time Enough at Last&#8221; where book lover Burgess Merideth and ends with a gigantic pile of books around him and his glasses broken. \u00a0In fact that would be my Purgatory also &#8211; or perhaps Hell. \u00a0This would also be purgatory for <a href=\"http:\/\/poncer.blogspot.com\/\">Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/happycatholic.blogspot.com\/\">Happy Catholic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyakin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Akin &#8211;<\/a> Hosting a Catholic Radio show 24\/7 where the only question from callers is about Jesus&#8217; brothers and sisters or &#8220;Call no man father&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sqpn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fr. Roderick<\/a> &#8211; Working at a genius bar in a Microsoft Store.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/orthometer.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fr. Richsteig<\/a> &#8211; An office where hymns from the Gather Hymnal are piped in like Musak.<\/li>\n<li>Tom at <a href=\"http:\/\/disputations.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Disputations<\/a>. \u00a0To have volumes and volumes of St. Thomas Aquinas&#8217; works, but they are all in Thomas&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.catholic.com\/showthread.php?t=461202\" target=\"_blank\">handwriting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeisaprayer.com\/matthew-1237-blog\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Geerling<\/a> &#8211; To become a web developer for a site that uses Joomla. \u00a0A inside joke for those who know Jeff.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/patrickmadrid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Madrid<\/a> &#8211; Have to publish a Catholic magazine using only a mimeograph machine with no graphics allowed and totally humorless.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn Tribe and the writers at the New Liturgical Movement<\/a> Now quite sure, but I think it involves Folk guitar masses and the Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/socrates58.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Armstrong<\/a> &#8211; Allowed to blog all he wants as long as he keeps his posts under 140 characters.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CCEQFjAA&amp;url=http:\/\/www.ironiccatholic.com\/&amp;ei=w-sxTsbBH4rYgQe_tJihDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFMwsQyNRcFpoLVx8eThTzmjzHFEw\" target=\"_blank\">Ironic Catholic<\/a> &#8211; To have to listen to Alanis Morissette song &#8220;Irony&#8221; over and over again and not be allowed to complaint the Alanis Morissette does not understand what irony means.<\/li>\n<li>The Curt Jester &#8211; Having to read all my blog posts over and over again. \u00a0I am only thankful I never blogged when I was an atheist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; But it all sounds so same ol&#8217;, same ol&#8217;, y&#8217;know? Maybe Catholic bloggers will have to endure sufferings that are a bit more&#8230;I don&#8217;t know, personal. Custom-fit. 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