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Kevin Walsh | Homepage | 11.23.05 - 6:00 pm | #

Thanks, Kevin. I suspected that--but also wondered if my shout-out to the Church was a factor. Shortly after sending them the e-mail, my site stats show that someone from a large media company (not Gawker) found my site by Googling "dawn eden is becoming a catholic."
Dawn Eden | Homepage | 11.23.05 - 6:06 pm | #

and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, too! you're on my 'new friends this year' list - and i'm thankful
uncle jim | 11.23.05 - 8:19 pm | #

I'm thankful for you too!
Dawn Eden | Homepage | 11.23.05 - 8:32 pm | #

Friends.

Indeed.
Robert N G | Homepage | 11.23.05 - 10:03 pm | #

God bless you & yours, Dawn!

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving :)!!!
Faith | Homepage | 11.24.05 - 7:45 am | #

Thanks so much, Faith. All the same to you and yours!
Dawn Eden | Homepage | 11.24.05 - 1:30 pm | #

I am so glad you came up for air! Now I am really thankful. Well, actually, I always am. Come back, soon; I can feel myself shrivelling into a mere husk of what I once was without my daily truth serum...
Colleen | 11.24.05 - 1:42 pm | #

Was it something you said you oh so innocently ask. Yes Dawn, "Road to Rome???" That's why you never made the cut! You probably offended them. You made it sound as if you've taken over from Dorothy Lamour being guided by Crosby and Hope - Hope at least has the right name but I don't recall that trio filming in Rome.

Anyway, your quest should be The Path to Rome - that was the title of Belloc's classic. If you've never read it go treat yourself - after you've finished what you're currrently doing.

Oh and just by the way - on the subject of Thanksgiving Day - which Kiwis don't observe. But if my memory serves me correctly didn't G. K. Chesterton once say that it should be the British who celebrate Thanks giving? Giving thanks for the departure of the Puritans. Anyway, I'm envious. The World has much to thank America for.
God bless and best wishes Dawn.
Another Steve | Homepage | 11.24.05 - 2:41 pm | #

Much thanks, Colleen--though I think of you as too vibrant to shrivel. Thanks too to Steve. I prefer "road to Rome," because truth be told, all roads lead to Rome. Chesterton said that too. ("All roads lead to Rome; which is one reason why many people never get there.") Also, I prefer the Chester side of the Chesterbelloc.
Dawn Eden | Homepage | 11.24.05 - 4:00 pm | #

"Oh no, she's becoming one of them!" they're probably thinking.


(Lefty Christopher Hitchens, who used to attack so-called neo-conservatives way back when, is now writing for neocon publications such as the Weekly Standard, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Sun. He broke with the left over terrorism and the war in Iraq. Who wants to bet that Hitchens, who remains a militant atheist and committed secularist, will discover God in a few years, and then convert to Roman Catholicism a few years after that?)
D------ | 11.25.05 - 11:07 pm | #

I'm thankful you're on the road to Rome.
Janjan | Homepage | 11.26.05 - 11:06 am | #

Thanks, Janjan. That conference I attended with you was part of the silver thread that is guiding me there.
Dawn Eden | Homepage | 11.27.05 - 10:23 am | #

Dawn and readers:
Wishing you and blessed, safe, and happy holidays to you and your families :)
Rachael | Homepage | 11.29.05 - 1:38 pm | #

No, Hitchens is about the purest case of "invincible ignorance" I have ever seen -- his IQ drops 50 points whenever he is writing about religion (which still makes him smarter than the average person, but not capable of overcoming his prejudices....).
Joseph | 11.29.05 - 5:08 pm | #

Joseph, I don't disagree with anything you wrote.

But there have been more unlikely converts to Catholicism dating all the way back to St. Paul, who previously persecuted Christians.
D------ | 11.30.05 - 12:12 am | #

Well, I think those are fine reasons to be thankful. I'd publish 'em! :)
John R. | Homepage | 11.30.05 - 10:47 am | #