1. I’ve added a little graphic over on the left, courtesy of Catholic Content – links to the daily Scripture readings. If you have a blog, check it out.

2. Don’t forget the "Spirited Talk" program – also linked on the left. It’s a program from Loyola Press, seeking your feedback on books – what you’ve read and what you’d like to read.

3. Do check out this new , a-borning literary magazine for Catholics: Dappled Things. :

I am writing to inform you of a new initiative that I hope you will find very exciting and interesting. Throughout the past few months, a group of young Catholics (including myself) have been working to create a Catholic literary magazine targeted to students and young scholars. The name of the magazine is Dappled Things, and its aim is to provide a space for young writers to engage the literary world from a Catholic perspective. The magazine is committed to quality writing that takes advantage of the religious, theological, philosophical, artistic, cultural, and literary heritage of the Catholic Church in order to inform and enrich contemporary literary culture.

Thus, we are committed to following JPII’s call to evangelize the arts and culture. After much "behind the scenes" work, we are beginning our awareness campaign in order to spark interest in the magazine throughout the country. We seek to publish our inaugural online issue this advent, for which we are currently accepting submissions. We expect to release a print edition before the end of 2006.

4. Stephen Sparrow, our resident Kiwi (where it’s…spring) writes to tell us that the new issue of Communio has an intriguing-sounding article about Flannery O’Connor (which is not online, but…there it is, in your local theological library, perhaps)

5. Here’s a new blog run by two friends, one evangelical, one Roman Catholic. It’s called….Detente.