The Mainstream Media… New Media… Where can we get good news and Good News!?!
Our Picks
- Fr. Ryan, Battlestar Gallactica (on the Wikipedia)
- Fr. Chris, Michael O’brien, A Landscape With Dragons: The Battle for Your Child’s Mind
- Joshua, VistaPrint.com
The CU Metro
- Papal Prayer Intentions for March
Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for March is: “That the role of women may be more appreciated and used to good advantage in every country in the world”.
His mission intention is: “That, in the light of the Letter addressed to them by Pope Benedict XVI, the bishops, priests, consecrated persons and lay faithful of the Catholic Church in the Popular Republic of China may commit themselves to being the sign and instrument of unity, communion and peace”. - Scranton’s Bishop Martino orders priests: no Communion for public sinners.
- Our very own Bishop Morin has been ‘promoted’ to the see of Biloxi.
Backchat
- Last week’s questio: What did you give up for Lent? See the responses on the Facebook
- This week’s questio: Where do you get your news? Chime in on the Facebook
The Music
- Andy Steve and Andy, Ill Be Smiling When I Go
- The Ready Set, Soular Flares
- Junkyard Groove, Save me
THE CU 100th EPISODE SCAVENGER HUNT CONTEST
Official Rules:
1. Answer as many questions as possible.
2. email answers in list form to contest@catholicunderground.comin the following fashion (writing the question isn’t necessary)
2. email answers in list form to contest@catholicunderground.comin the following fashion (writing the question isn’t necessary)
- Answer 1
- Answer 2
Bonus. Bonus
3. All answers are due in by 11:59pm on Sunday, March 15, 2009. If there is a tie, winner will be chosen by pulling a name at random from the fabled Zuchetto of Continuity.
4. Winner will be announced during The Catholic Underground podcast during the week of March 15, 2009.
The Clues:
1. What is the name of the fish on the Catholic Underground Logo?
2. When was the very first episode released?
3. When is Fr. Chris’ birthday?
4. What is the name of Fr. Ryan’s radio Program?
5. What is the name of Josh’s Radio Program?
6. What is Daniel’s occupation?
7. State Fr. Ryan’s usual weekly salutation.
8. What happened to Fr. Chris’ laptop while he was in Rome?
9. What are the name of Fr. Ryan’s Sugar Gliders?
10. What famous home to Military boot camp did Fr. Chris innocently mispronounce and how did he pronounce it?
11. What does the cu team prefer to call Advent?
12. What podcaster, who isn’t a panelist on catholicunderground.com, has a podcast that airs on The Stream
And a Bonus: What program did we originally use to edit the podcast?
I have been looking at the BBC lately for more balanced news. It also gives much more world news than CNN or Fox, for example.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Just out of curiousity I did a search on abortion on the BBC site and found:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/
I thought this covered many important aspects of the topic in a way that presented a variety of viewpoints well. It also introduced me to some arguments against abortion that I had not thought of.
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