Saturday, March 13, 2004
Anglefish Update
We have babies! For the first time in a year.
Of course, this would happen two weeks after giving up on having another clutch and starting to convert the rearing tank into another community tank. So I have no idea how they'll survive. So far today, the parents do seem to be defending them well. Maybe some will make it.
Sunday, March 07, 2004
Breaking my resolution ...
I haven't stayed away from reading blogs. (At least it's not technically Lent today.)
Evidence is at Amy Welborn's here and here.
(For those who don't follow the links, they're commentary on various Catholic scandals.)
I keep seeing numbers about the quantity of adult converts to Catholicism in America yearly, in the range of 160,000 - 200,000. I find this absolutly astonishing. At that rate, supposedly Catholic converts alone make up the 9th largest religious denomination in America. (Certainly dwarfing the poor, befuddled ECUSA.)
Either a tremendous amount of these are via marriage, or there's some serious work of Grace going on -- because it sure isn't the winsomeness of the hierarchy, for the most part. (Exceptions made for His Holiness John Paul II and various heroic local priests, of course. And not all bishops are destined as paving-stones, although certainly the peril is great ...)
