The cyberspace staked out by Catholics runs a wild gamut - from brilliant contemporary theologians to paranoid conspiracy theorists - with a whole slew of memes, tumblrs, and tweets in-between. We are spoiled for choices, and don’t have to mine very deeply to find some true gems, throwing out flashes of God’s love into a dark world.
There, tucked away in the blogosphere, is one such gem. At first glance, A Knotted Life looks like every other Catholic mommy blog: pictures of cute kids, honest admissions of daily struggles, recipes - the gracious sharing of domestic minutiae that helps build community in an increasingly fragmented world. But then, you notice a tab sitting unobstrusively at the top of the page that reads, “James and Fulton Sheen.”