The God of Imagination

My summer reading this year included New York Times ubercolumnist Thomas Friedman's popular book The World is Flat. In it I found some interesting things to know about our fine Catholicist Nation.

To muse on those things with me, go here.

For a bit of exposition on the Catholicist Nation, take a peek here.

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