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The Fathers Know Best Finalist for Readers’ Choice Awards

The Fathers Know Best has been nominated for the 2011 About.com Catholicism Readers' Choice Awards.

I hope that you will consider casting a vote for it–and for the other Catholic Answers projects that have been nominated for awards. These include:

Catholic.com for best Catholic web site 2010.
Catholic Answers LIVE for best Catholic podcast 2010.
This Rock for best Catholic magazine 2010.
Catholic Answers Fan Page for best Catholic Facebook page 2010.

We at Catholic Answers work very hard to make these projects succeed and provide apostolic benefit for as many souls as possible.

Winning any of these awards will help us better promote them and allow us to reach even more souls.

You can cast your vote here:

http://catholicism.about.com/od/thechurchintheworld/tp/2011-About-Com-Catholicism-Readers-Choice-Awards.htm

Voting is only open for a limited time, and the results will be announced soon.

Please consider casting a vote today, and thank you for your support!

–Jimmy

In The Mail . . .

So I was checking my mail (the old fashioned, paper kind), and I found a letter from the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington. And I thought, "Why is the nunciature writing to me?"

The Fathers Know Best: Now on Kindle!

WOO-HOO!

The Fathers Know Best is now available on Kindle! Now you can instantly gratify your instant gratification wish by downloading your copy directly from Amazon.com. And if you don't yet have a kindle, you can (a) buy one and (b) until it arrives, use one of the FREE Kindle reading apps that are available for your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone 7.

If you have an actual Kindle, you can also have it read the book to you out loud–just like when your parents read you doctrinal excerpts from the Church Fathers when you were a child!

Let the downloading begin!

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BTW, I just this morning got my hands on my first physical copy of the book. The printer overnighted us a few review copies. The main shipment is due in later this week, and I'm supposed to sign more than a thousand of them next week. Whew!

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My New Book Is Out!

No, not the one you're thinking of. A different one.

You see, recently John Zmirak, Elizabeth Scalia (the Anchoress), Eric Metaxas, Peter Kreeft, Robert Spencer, Dwight Longenecker, Eric Brende, George Rutler, Donna Steichen, John Keck, Mark Shea, Jeffrey Tucker, John Zulhsdorf, and I were sitting around the pool shooting the breeze and talking about how it would be nice to collaborate on a project with each other.

So we did.

We wrote a book together.

That afternoon.

At John Zmirak's suggestion, we took on the most common ideologies infesting college campuses today–sentimentalism, relativism, hedonism, progressivism, multiculturalism, anti-Catholicism, utilitarianism, consumerism, cynicism, feminism, Americanism, Marxism, and modernism.

And we trounced them thoroughly, with each of us contributing a chapter. (I did the one on anti-Catholicism.)

Now that book is out. It's called Disorientation: The 13 "isms" That Will Send You to Intellectual "La-La Land."

While it's pitched in a special way for those in or entering college (hint: Christmas gift idea for high-school or college-age relations!), it's also fun to read and of interest to anybody who would like short, snappy responses to the ideologies of our day.

And it comes with cartoons! Did I mention that it comes with cartoons?

While the above poolside story is entirely fictitious, the book is not, so . . .

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