Blogs for Benedict
As some of you may already know, shortly after the election of Pope Benedict, I ran across this post at Dom Bettinelli's blog, and it gave me the idea to go looking for another domain that popped into my own head. Initially I'd intended to offer it to Christopher Blosser from The Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club - and I still may do just that - but I thought I'd best give a try to organizing the thing myself.
So without further ado...
I've just finished flipping all the required Internet switches to redirect the domain name www.blogsforbenedict.com back here to The Black Madonna, for lack of a better place. (Ironically, it was only because I was rushing to get the "blogsforbenedict" domain that I bothered to finally buy "theblackmadonna", even though I've been thinking of picking up the latter for a couple of weeks.) For now, I'd like to blogroll as many sites as are willing to join, but maybe in the future we can set up a mob-blog with the best contributions from orthodox Catholics around the blogroll, a la Blogs for Bush. At least, that's a thought.
(EDIT: Come to think of it, that's what Catholics in the Public Square is for, isn't it? Maybe they'd like to be the host site and I'll just manage the links.... Stay tuned.)
If you're interested in joining the blogroll, please send me an email.
TECHNICAL UPDATE: I suppose I should say that I've currently got the blogroll managed as a random sample of 20 links, so aside from the pure sentiment of belonging to a list of bloggers who support the Holy Father, it's a relatively small block of links that can give your site more exposure. For those of us trying to gin up enough ad revenue/donations to pay for our passion, exposure can be a good thing.