Popular versus unpopular

This blog began in June 2007. Many topics have been aired during that time. There have been pieces on prayer, death, religious life, church, politics. Much has been written on German issues. Even zany points on grammar have appeared. Split infinitives are not tolerated and the past participle of the verb 'to get' is not 'gotten, but 'got'. And never once is there a whisper of 'going forward'. Why upper case common nouns? Why should priest, cardinal, bishop begin with an upper case? Church may be an issue, but certainly the building is lower case, just as school or house.
Of course, all subtle ways of giving importance to intstitutes and people!
And the word 'laity' is absurd and an insult when it is used in the context of church matters. Surely a 'lay person' is the person who is no 'expert'. So is it only priests who are experts in church matters? Nonsense of course.

Occasionally readers leave comments. It was originally planned that there would be no anonymous comments but most of the anonymoyus comments have been left on the blog.

Anonymity is scary but censorship is horrible. It would never be the intetnion of this blog to hide behind censosrhip or obsessive secrecy. Enough damage has been done in that area.

But what is most interesting to observe is the popularity of certain issues. Once they are mentioned this becomes a very busy and popular blog.

One is bound to smile.