IT HAS been one year and four weeks since I started this blog. I was too busy posting to note the anniversary on May 5. There are now 703 entries in the archives, and they include many intelligent, funny, sad, wise and admonishing contributions from readers. It has been a year of curses and compliments. 

The purpose of this blog, one year later, is the same: to promote the common good and the good that is common. The common good sounds simple but it is not so easy to defend. There is always something about it that lies just beyond our grasp. We can clarify it rationally, but we cannot fully defend it without an appeal to ultimate truth and to tradition, to the idea that we do some things a certain way because they were done that way in the past and because we trust in, even love, those who came before us. 

If there is one overwhelming social wrong in our culture, a wrong that surpasses innumerable others, it is the neglect of children, of their spiritual, moral, intellectual and physical welfare. This includes the failure to bring many children to life. The neglect of children and our declining birth rate amount to cultural suicide, the throwing away of our heritage. The common good always encompasses the past and the future, the dead and those not yet living or not yet mature. 

Reformers and dreamers are not very good at celebrating. But I hope you will please celebrate this belated anniversary with me by making a contribution to this blog to ensure its future existence. You can donate here. Thank you for your support.

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