Friday, April 25

Yay. I'm there.

(Seriously - if this actually serves up what it promises to, it looks like what I've been waiting for. I've been contemplating Moveable Type for a while, but didn't want to bother with what it required. All along, though, I thought that certainly, at some point, they'd be coming up with something that was more a bit more user friendly with the added attraction of a host server. They have. I'll check it out once it emerges and if I like it, I will probably spend some time moving my whole Mighty Web Presence to it - this place and the home page, with a new look, new title and slightly new direction for a weblog - can't handle the constant provision of news any more, but I do need some sort of creative outlet that's totally mine, so maybe this will inspire me and help me out...We'll see.)

The Pope's new poems

Poland’s Church-owned St Stanislaw publishing house had hoped to release Roman Triptych as a world exclusive at the Pope’s former see of Krakow, and was disappointed when told it would be launched simultaneously by Biblioteca Editrice Vaticana in Rome. The English translation, now available from the Catholic Truth Society with an introduction by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, is disappointingly low-key, and will colour the work’s reception by missing the resonance and deeper sense of much of the Pope’s Polish-language original. However banal, it nevertheless conveys his ideas and images, and will have to suffice for English-language readers.