What's New: Hello, my name is Christopher. I blog regularly at Against The Grain I founded/maintain the Pope Benedict XVI Fan Club (formerly known as the Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club. You can read about the Pope's visit to the United States in April 2008 at Benedict in America. You can read Fr. James V. Schall's commentaries on the pontificate of Pope Benedict at Schall on Benedict. I have a few websites dedicated to some ongoing topics of interest / research: The Catholic Church and the Liberal Tradition The Catholic Church, the Just War Tradition and the Iraq War Debate Pius XII, the Catholic Church & the Holocaust I blog my thoughts on the intersection of faith and politics at Cardinal Avery Dulles Hans Urs von Balthasar Richard J. Neuhaus Michael Novak George Weigel Fr. Edward T. Oakes, SJ John Courtney Murray, SJ Jaroslav Pelikan Romano Guardini Neil Postman and literary: The Catholic Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien Walker Percy thepublicsquare.blogspot.com">Catholics in the Public Square I also have a page dedicated to my grandparents, Eugene and Louella Gingerich Blosser. The first website I ever built was for The Regressives. In my spare time, I like to toy around with Garageband.