{"id":4223,"date":"2007-02-17T12:54:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T17:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/02\/17\/and-the-winners-are-2\/"},"modified":"2007-02-17T12:54:52","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T17:54:52","slug":"and-the-winners-are-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/02\/and-the-winners-are-2\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winners are…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karen Hall<\/a> posted a convenient list of this year’s winners and runner up in the 2007 Catholic Blog Awards.<\/p>\n

Best Apologetic Blog:<\/span> Jimmy Akin<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  The Cafeteria is Closed<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Blog by Clergy\/Religious\/Seminarian:  What Does Prayer Really Say?<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  Pontifications<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Designed Catholic Blog:  The New Liturgical Movement<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  Open Book<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Group Blog:  The Shrine of the Holy Whapping<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  The New Liturgical Movement<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Individual Blog: Open Book<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  The Cafeteria is Closed<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Insider News Catholic Blog:  Whispers in the Loggia<\/a>
\nRunner-Up: Open Book<\/a><\/p>\n

Best New Catholic Blog:  Rorate Caeli<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  Cardinal Sean’s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Overall Catholic Blog:  Open Book<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  Jimmy Akin<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Political\/Social Commentary:  The Anchoress<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  Catholic and Enjoying It<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Written Catholic Blog:  Open Book<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  Daily Danielle<\/a><\/p>\n

Funniest Catholic Blog: The Curt Jester<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  Daily Danielle<\/a><\/p>\n

Most Spiritual Blog:  Pontifications<\/a>
\nRunner-Up: The New Liturgical Movement<\/a><\/p>\n

Smartest Catholic Blog: Jimmy Akin<\/a>
\nRunner-Up:  Pontifications<\/a><\/p>\n

The full award results are here<\/a> along with vote totals. So congratulations to all the winners and to all the nominees. The number of great nominees were available in every category and in many cases any of the top ten would have been appropriate as the winner.<\/p>\n

For those that voted for me in any category you have my heart-felt thanks. The reason we have the blog awards just before Lent is so that our egos can get down to a manageable size before Easter. I always loved the way people like Mother Angelica could let praise pass right through them and let it be redirected towards Jesus. I would love to do the same, but attributing my humor to Jesus doesn’t seem quite right. Though I really should since he wonderfully gave us the capacity for humor and the best of humor is that which has a large grain of truth. I was glad to see that newcomers to the funniest blog category The Ironic Catholic<\/a> and Alive and Young<\/a> also received many votes. There are relatively few Catholic blogs that specialize in humor though there are a large majority who dabble in humor at times. The great things about Catholic blogs is that you are not always sure when they will make you laugh, cry, or pray.<\/p>\n

I was quite pleased to do as well as I did in the Best Political\/Social Commentary Catholic Blog where competition is especially stiff. The Anchoress<\/a> certainly deserves the win and she was the one I nominated and voted for. She is also one of the few members of St. Blogs that has a well-deserved large readership outside of the Catholic blogosphere.<\/p>\n

Winners and nominees, You can now download your buttons<\/a> for the 2007 CBAs. There are buttons in each category for the winner and the nominees. Make sure you copy the buttons to your own server space and please do not link directly to the buttons on cybercatholic.com. If you need your image hosted contact Joshua Leblanc<\/a>. If you need a button resized to fit your sidebar then contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A special thanks goes to Joshua Leblanc of CyberCatholics.com who makes the awards possible in the first place. This year he had great programming help for the site from CoreB<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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