"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
When talking about the Bible, we Catholics inevitably end up talking about the Liturgy of the Word at Mass. I had always wondered how much of the Bible we hear proclaimed in the Liturgy. The other day I got a little curious and tracked done some statistics…
Today I looked up the number of abortions which happen worldwide in the space of a year. The number was truly shocking:
42 Million 56 Million
42….million…that number is just far too big for me to even try and wrap my head around. How about the number just in the US?
1.37 Million 638,169
1.37….million… Even that number is too large for me to even attempt to visualize… What would that be per day?
3,700 1,748
Over three and a half thousand abortions a day in the USA… To put that into context, September 11th, the event that shook the world, claimed approximately 2,977 lives…
I recall hearing a soundbite on TV of a certain politician defending the current abortion laws and saying that he wanted abortion to be “safe, legal and rare”.
I’m sure there’s constant medical progress towards protecting the mother’s health during the abortion procedure.
Abortion is certainly legal.
But rare?
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,100 times in 2010. That’s about 7 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 59 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 126 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was December 6th with 107 views. The most popular post that day was Daughters Of The King.
The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, forums.catholic.com, realtimeunited.wordpress.com, newcatholicblogs.blogspot.com, and fathersofthechurch.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for jesus, restless pilgrim, this restless pilgrim, st. ignatius of antioch, and daughters of the king san diego.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Daughters Of The King December 2010
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Sunday Lectionary: The Hippo Gospel July 2010
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Top Ten, All Time, Catholic Pick-Up Lines July 2010
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About Me August 2010
Who’s your daddy? St. Ignatius of Antioch July 2010
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