Rick
ABA 2006
- ABA 2006 General Information
Program, Presenters, Place, Purpose
- ABA 2006 Program
Schedule, Sessions, General Membership Meeting, Board Elections, etc.
- American Benedictine Academy
Homepage, website, index, information, mission, publications, etc.
- American Monastic Newsletter
Offical organ of the academy, journal, news, grants, reviews, events, etc.
- Monastic Musings - Edith osb
S. Edith Bogue's personal blog.
Family
- Valencia. World Meeting of the Families, 1-9 July 2006.
Benedict XV addresses issues of the nuclear family.
Family News
- Canadians' digital connections
They're "fast becoming a culture of technological chatterboxes," the Toronto Star reports. A recent national survey of nearly 1,100 Canadians by Angus Reid Strategies found that only 18% of people in Canada do not own a cellphone but, at the other end of the spectrum, 18% couldn't live without thei ...
- Hacks in social sites
What I mean is, hackers (not malicious ones) have something to say about social-networking sites. Thousands of them gathered at two conferences in Las Vegas this past week, the Associated Press reports. Here's the important part: Hackers are seeing intruders in social-networking sites who "commande ...
- More global-socializing data
Once you get past Tagged.com's and Facebook.com's amazing growth figures this past year (774% and 270%, respectively, with Bebo in third place at a respectable 172%), the worldwide membership of these sites is a little less jawdropping. But that international appeal probably explains a lot of these ...
- Sex offenders in MySpace: Some context
Last week Larry Magid and I co-wrote a commentary that ran in the San Jose Mercury News Sunday. Hundreds of news outlets worldwide had picked up the story that MySpace has deleted the profiles of 29,000 registered sex offenders. The news may have been shocking to a lot of parents of teen social net ...
- Facebook & ID theft
This is something for social networkers to be on the alert about: computer security and social engineering on social-networking sites (social engineering is what phishers and identity thieves use to trick people into making themselves and their devices vulnerable to hacks and ID theft). The latest ...
OSB
- internationals
Blog started after ABA Convention for minority members of Anglo monasteries.
- What's New OSB
Benedictine news and events.
- OSB Information
General information about the Order of Saint Benedict.
- OSB Website
The Order of Saint Benedict worldwide.
OSB What's New
- Idaho Monks Publish New Martyrology
The monks of Ascension Monastery, Idaho, have published a new Martyrology that favors monastic saints.
- Clyde Sisters Elect S. Sean Douglas OSB Prioress
On 15 July, the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration of Clyde, Missouri, elected S. Sean Douglas OSB to become Prioress.
- Solemnity of Saint Benedict, 11 July 2008
On 11 July, Benedictines and their friends honor Saint Benedict, Patriarch of Western Monasticism and Co-Patron of Europe.
- Schaeftlarn Monks Elect P. Petrus Hoehensteiger OS ...
On Friday, 11 July 2008, the monks of Schaeftlarn elected P. Petrus Hoehensteiger OSB, 45, to the office of abbot.
- Opening of the Year of Saint Paul
Pope Benedict XVI, in the company of a select ecumenical delegation, opened the Year of Saint Paul with solemn vespers on 28 June at the Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls.