Blogging Hits the Big Time: Nihil Obstat Edition

I think St Blogs has officially hit the big time: one of our own just got a shout-out at Mass at St Mary's. Just before the concluding blessing, Fr Confer stopped to speak briefly about the election of His Holiness Benedict XVI. He advised the congregation to take what they were hearing with a substantial grain of salt, that much of it was unsubstantiated and calumny. He advised us to visit the Ratzinger Fan Club, which has lots of links to the Pope's written works and interviews, and to read them so as to get to know il Papa, "rather than trust what [we] read in the New York Times." That is so cool. I could scarcely believe my ears when I heard it, and I got the biggest, stupidest grin on my face that I couldn't shake practically until the end of the recessional. I've never been prouder to be a blogger. (Now, if we can only get the Dominican community of the Elm City to start blogging, we'll be all set.)

(And if you don't trust me - and why should you? - I'm fully prepared to call Eve Tushnet and Cacciaguida as witnesses. They was there too. They was!)

UPDATE: The same story is told more eloquently and concisely by a ruggedly handsome commenter at Open Book here. Heh, indeed.