Daily Stops

These are the places I check out almost every day:
The Drudge Report
The New York Times Arts and Op-ed - gets my blood boiling and my fires relit every morning
Arts and Letters Daily Excellent daily digest of some of the most interesting articles on culture to be found on the Internet.
The National Review, especially Jonah Goldberg's column
Slate
Poynter Medianews Good source of media sins and gossip
Yahoo! Full Coverage Religion News
Yahoo! Full Coverage John Paul II News
Yahoo! Full Coverage Literary News
Christianity Today's Daily News Update Really lots and lots of interesting stuff here, especially in the "Weblog" section, for which you can get daily e-mail updates.

Once a Week or so


Moby Lives A great site devoted to news about books, and insightful, amusing and honest commentary regarding the contemporary literary scene and book business.
The Straight Dope: answers to all the questions you've always wondered about, like, "If there's an 'I' street and a 'K' street in Washington D.C., why isn't there a "J" street?" and "Are there really fish scales in lipstick?"
The New York Observer
The Weekly Standard
Overlawyered Updated daily. Frightening, amazing tales from our litigous society.
Salon, usually only bearable when Camille Paglia has a new column
Newsmax Columnist links This is useful because it not only links to a ton of columnists, but also offers the title of the latest column, which is a helpful timesaver
The New York Press
EWTN News

Diversions

Ebay I confess.
Amazon Still the best mega online bookseller, but methinks they're slipping a bit...
A Common Reader A marvelous, marvelous company filled with excellent book choices that will broaden your world.

Research

My research for various writing projects takes me in a multitude of directions. Here are some of the most valuable sites I've found in my particular areas of interest.

Catholic Theology and History

EWTN The EWTN document library is invaluable, both for current church documents and historical documents.
New Advent contains most (if not all) of the text of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, , the Summa, and the works of many Church Fathers.
The Ecole Initiative "Creating a Hyptertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the World Wide Web." Excellent
The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies Comprehensive, fascinating and addictive place to wander...if you like that kind of stuff, which I do.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library From Wheaton. Another essential, containing among other things the entire text of the Church Fathers volumes.
The Mysticism PageExcellent resource for information of all types and strands of mysticism
The Victorian Web
The Jesuit Relations When completed, will contain the English translation of the complete text of the records that 17th century French Jesuits kept of their North American Missions.
On-Line Latin Dictionary
Leadership U. A compilation of articles on theological and cultural issues, oriented to evangelical ministers, teachers, and academics. Some very useful material here, particularly in the area of God and science
Island of Freedom An interesting site offering short essays and good links to information on a variety of philsophers, theologians and artists.
Corunum Apologetic Web Site "Corunum's mission is to present the outline of Catholic doctrines as they appear in the writings of the Church Fathers." Very useful.
Nazareth Resource Library "Bringing quality Christian literature to the World Wide Web" An incredibly comprehensive and useful collection of material on everything Catholic, gathered by Catholic Answers apologist James Akin.
Catholic Web Resources

Saints

EWTN and the Catholic Encyclopedia are good places to start, then move on to:
St. Patrick's Parish Saints Directory I don't know who's responsible, but bless them for this amazing effort. Quite comprehensive.
Lives of the Saints Nice site maintained by Edmund LoPresti, with all the links you'll need.
Theology Library: Saints Another good site with links to specific saints' information across the WWW.

Scripture

Bible Gateway A Concordance/Search of nine major translations (Neither the NAB or the Jerusalem are included, but the RSV is.)
Biblical Resources Excellent collection of links to everything you'll need, compiled by Professor Felix Just, S.J. at Loyola Marymount University

Various Thinkers and Writers
(In no particular order or state of completion)

Aristotle et. al. "Readings for Philosophers and Catholics"
Aquinas Online
Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.
The Inklings Webring Links to sites about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein and Charles Williams
Flannery O'Connor
The Walker Percy Project
Evelyn Waugh
British and Irish Authors on the Net
Hillaire Belloc
G.K.Chesterton

Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion

Unique Catholic Sites

Holy Weblog and Relapsed Catholic. Both are updated daily, and provide links to lots of interesting religion articles along with the respective webmistresses' commentary.
A Catholic Educator's Resource Center An excellent source of articles and links for any topic an educator (or researcher) might be researching.
A Catholic Page for Lovers
Biblical Evidence for Catholicism Self-explanatory. Comprehensive. Impressive.
The Monks of Adoration A contemplative community in Massachusetts allows us to pray with them via the internet! Another rich site.
The Aquinas Cafe These guys are great. Cheeky, smart and theologically...well, I guess it's obvious.
Phatmass.com A new site from the webmaster of the former coolpope.com. Quick-loading, informative - a good site for younger Catholics and seekers.
Catholic Film Review The fruit of yet one more individual's very hard work. An excellent site that provides good, intelligent reviews of current films.
Kim's Catholic Links Kim works very hard to give us a great collection of links to Catholic stuff! Thanks, Kim!
Lisa's Lighthouse is a relatively new site for the "Gen X" Catholic, but really, it's for anyone interested in learning more about Catholicism and browsing through an excellent, current collection of links.
The Catholic Calendar Page. What a great idea! The Easterbrooks maintain a page which tells you everything you want or need to know about the current day on the liturgical calendar: The readings, feast day, even what Mystery of the Rosary is waiting to be prayed!

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