Tradicat Blogging Statistics

JMJ

The Truth is the reason for this blog, but having an engineering background I am curious about stats. What follows are some of the stats and my thoughts / interpretations.

First we have the general stats such as number of followers (ie 1), posts (1967) and comments. How do I interpret these headline stats. Well, only one person finds my 'content' sufficiently interesting to actively follow the blog.

In the 10+ years since inception, I have posted 1967 articles - some original some just things I found of interest. There have been 431 comments. After I implemented screening, this slowed down to 1 comment every few years. This doesn't bother me in the least since it took time to screen the comments for spam and comments inappropriate for a religious themed blog. The 'big' number is over 600k views - which is about 60k per year.

Nothing compared to some, but I find it interesting.

The graph below shows the number of view and I'm not certain what triggered the spikes in 2017, but 2019 was (I believe) due to COVID. The 2021/2022 spike is a mystery to me. The key thing is that there is a steady increase in the baseline interrupted only when I would take a break and not post for a few months.

So interest in the blog increases.

The following chart shows the audience over the past seven days and for some reason Singapore is practically neck-and-neck with the US. Wow, so welcome to the blog!

From an overall perspective the US has is the largest audience with Canada a distant second. I was always curious about the Russian readership and suspect it is bots.

In the past seven days the two three articles have included the Novus Ordo, Obedience, a recent post and the lingering curiosity about Fr / Bishop Joseph Pfeiffer. This is actually a secondary article on Fr. Pfeiffer, the original article on the Pfeiffer garnered so much attention that it was skewing the popular posts section of the blog. So I shifted it around - yet it still regularly hits the top ten.

Finally we have the all time more popular posts on the blog. I am impressed and happy that the Thirty Days prayer has retained its top ranking.

So the only real conclusions I can draw are that:

The readership continues to increase.
Timely posts on key events (wars, Voris, etc) tend to do well.
A lot of the readership is on older posts - which I ascribe as people looking for answers.

So there you have it, my curiosity is satisfied, we now return to regular programming.

P^3

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The Vatican and SSPX – An Organizational Culture Perspective

Introduction The recent and continuing interactions between the Vatican and the SSPX have been a great opportunity for prayer and reflection. The basis for the disagreement is theological and not liturgical. As noted by Dr. Lamont (2012), the SSPX theological position on the four key controversial aspects of the Second Vatican Council are base on prior theological work that resulted from relevant magisterial pronouncements. So it is difficult to understand the apparent rejection of the theological position of the SSPX.

A Reply to Martin Blackshaw’s FLAWED Remnant article titled: FLAWED: SSPX Advice on Abortion-tainted Vaccines

+ JMJ An article has appeared in the Remnant (link to article) and I am afraid that there are a number of flaws in it that need to be addressed. The author, Martin Blackshaw, believes that both the Church and the SSPX are misapplying the principle of Moral Theology called 'Cooperation In Evil'. Unfortunately, Mr. Blackshaw rests most of his arguments on citing authors that support his position, without considering the possibility that they are wrong. This highlights a key factor in this crisis: ignorance of the faith and its application . I don't am not singling out Mr. Blackshaw for this criticism, I have observed that it applies to laity and religious, superior and subject a like. No one seems immune in this enduring crisis, myself included. I further believe that this ignorance is why so many Catholics, both traditional and non, rely on their gut feeling or "Catholic conscience" for charting their way through this crisis of the faith. While...

SSPX and the Resistance - A Comparison Of Ecclesiology

Shining the light of Church Teaching on the doctrinal positions of the SSPX and the Resistance. Principles are guides used to aid in decision making. It stands to reason that bad principles will lead to bad decisions. The recent interactions between Rome and the SSPX has challenged a number of closely held cultural assumptions of people in both sides of the disagreement. This has resulted in cultural skirmishes in both Rome and the SSPX. Since it is the smaller of the two, the skirmishes have been more evident within the SSPX. The cultural fault-line that Bishop Fellay crossed appears to be linked to two points of Catholic Doctrine: Ecclesiology and Obedience. The cultural difference of view points is strong enough that it has resulted in the expulsion of a number of members. It should also be noted that some other priests expelled since the beginning of the latest interactions (starting in 2000) held the same view points and have joined with the l...

Doctrinal Preamble April 15, 2012 vs Protocol 1988

+ JMJ Reproduced below are the Doctrinal Preamble of Bishop Fellay (2012) and Protocol of Archbishop Lefebvre (1988) for comparison. Perhaps when I have time I will add detailed commentary. Now, given that Archbishop Lefebvre stated that there was nothing wrong with the 1988 text of the protocol, comparing it with that of Bishop Fellay ... where's the problem? Are as Kaesekopf of Suscipedomine wrote : ...can someone explain why trads would reject this? Or rather, why a sedeplenist trad (who accepts the validity of the NO) would reject this? Update: To make a comparison easier, I have inserted the comparable elements of the Protocol developed by Archbishop Lefebvre with that of Bishop Fellay. I have also included my own commentary in blue . Last thought, when I first read the preamble I thought ... ok so what's the problem? Now I that I've read it again ... I still ask: What's the problem? It was based on the Protocol signed by Ar...

Morning and Evening and other sundry Prayers

+ JMJ Along the theme of P^3 (Prayer, Penance, Patience), and for my own reference ... here is a collection of Morning and Evening prayers from the Ideal Daily Missal along with some additional prayers. In this crisis of the Church, I do not think it is possible to do too much prayer, penance and have patience. P^3

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