"A Respite from Politically-Oriented Blogging"

As you may have noticed, 'Catholics in the Public Square' has been quiet of late. There are a number of reasons:

What started out as a collective blogging project has, over the years and for various reasons, diminished in size, frequency and membership. (By no means am I faulting other contributors: we each have our respective blogs and priorities in life).

For me, personally, blogging in general has taken a back seat to other affairs -- parenting and other family matters; increasing responsibilities at work; reading and other passions. And in what little time I do have to blog, it is preferably on less political matters -- and more often than not at venues such as: First Things, American Catholic, the Benedict (fan club) Blog or my own personal blog, Against The Grain.

Also, specifically in terms of "politically-oriented" Catholic blogs -- there are so many these days with doing such good work and possessing such great potential, that the visibility (and perhaps worth) of this own one has diminished. I refer here to the following excellent examples, which I recommend wholeheartedly and are worth visiting daily:

• Pro Ecclesia * Pro Familia * Pro Civitate by our own contributor Jay Anderson, which is predominantly focused on political matters.
  
• The American Principles Project, founded by Robert P. George with organization blog headed by Thomas Peters.
  
• CatholicVote.com with a blog headed by Joshua Mercer and company.
  
• The American Catholic, a Catholic blogging collective who I have the honor of being a part of.
  
• Creative Minority Report by Patrick and Matthew Archbold. ("Believing Christians should look upon themselves as such a creative minority and ... espouse once again the best of its heritage, thereby being at the service of humankind at large." --Joseph Ratzinger)
  

Five years is a long time for a blog. Looking back, I'm pleased to see what Catholics in the Public Square has accomplished -- no small thanks in part to my fellow contributors (past and present); our readers and those who took the time to comment as well.

Perhaps I will resume contributing to this project in the future -- for now, at least, I hope you will understand my need for a respite.

God bless and good night,

Christopher Blosser