Well done, Mark.
Recognition of the clarity and originality of your thought.
Merciful Mother Of The Church- St. Blog's is getting respectable. First, prime-time appearance by El Shea and La Shaidle on the MSNBC Cable Teevee Network- devoid of snotty questions or the usual names in the Roladex heading of Dissidents, Catholic. Now our Webmaster's thoughts- and mayhap those of our cyberspace brethen- preserved by Library of Congress to honor Pope Saint Johannes Paulus Maximus of Blessed Memory Intercede For Us and Pope B Dear Holy Father Amen. Way too cool. (Egad- G.E.'s ramblings during that period possibly preserved thru time and eternity. Scary.)
Hey, that means that your commenters are now in the SI too! I'm part of an exhibit!
Congratulations, Mark, on this tremendous honor. It's richly deserved.
Especially when you consider how we're still at the very dawn of the Internet as a tool and a phenomenon, and there's literally no telling what it will become or what it will lead to. And your work will be one of things reserved to mark the recording of perhaps the most momentous single event in the Age of the Internet so far. Maybe it's like...being one of the first things to come off Gutenberg's press...well done, indeed, sir.
Great! This means 2 things. 1) The Library of Congress never got the message that to mention anything favorable about Christanity or Christians is unconstitutional. 2) All people of faith - Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, need to gear up to counter the ACLU and friends coming attempt to correct this "clear violation of the separation of church and state by a government agency" in the courts.
Apparrently some folks at the Library of Congress have very good judgement. That's amazing. They couldn't have made a better choice!
Hey, I work there (here) but I had nothing to do with it. This is great!
From a lowly library worker: Congratulations, dude! You rock!
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And Congratulations! 
I hate to burst your bubble, Mark, but Novus Ordo Watch says they got the same letter.
Doesn't burst my bubble. A history of World War II is going to include both the "Four Freedoms" speech and "Mein Kampf". Similar principles apply here.
Good point.
Wow! Congrats, Mark! Truly Catholic points of view are always worth hearing, and you do put yours eloquently, with great wit.
Hey, are they archiving the comments, too? Do we all get to ride Mark's coattails into the LOC?
Let's all say hello to the cyborg historians of the future!
I knew my sublime comments would drag Mark into the limelight sooner or later!!
Seriously, Mark, great job commenting the last couple of weeks. The time off seems to have done you well, as you've stepped up to a new level in the incisiveness of your analysis.
I dunno. I keep thinking of that final scene of the cellar of the government building at the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Way cool, man.
Color me impressed to heck and gone. =:^0
Did you look at the full message headers?
From "Minerva".... Hmmm. Sounds Graeco-Roman-paganish.
It's all thanks to the spirit of the sainted Lee Burwasser (LOC librarian extraordinaire), sitting in the bosom of Abraham, looking down on loc.gov and keeping them honest.
She would've liked you, Mark.
Congratulations! What took you so long!
I got this email also but wasn't sure if it were for real. Even though it doesn't tell me to give them my bank account # so Prince so and so from Africa can deposit $10 million for me to hold, I wasn't so sure.
This is far too kewl.
To think - as others have noted - that we have 'rubbed shoulders' with You.
Reminds me of that old movie where a bloke, who had met the great Jim Sullivan - World Champion boxer of his era - (I think it was Jim Sullivan - wasn't it?- Gerard E. - put me right), and had shaken his hand, would say to all he met, "Shake the hand that shook the hand of the man who Shook the world."
Great work, Mark.
You too, huh?
How nice. The folks at Novus Ordo Watch have been found worthy as well. Future generations get to read their tomes of wisdom:
"Novus Ordo Watch has been selected by Library of Congress as 'historic collection of Internet materials related to the death of Pope John Paul II and the election of a new Pope.' More on this soon...."
Congrats, Mark. That's an awesome honor.
Don: Twas John L. Sullivan, Proud Irishman and Early Americano Pugilist. What's shakin', Bacon?
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