Catholic & Single I’m back after a long break

Feb 10, 2010

Well, it’s been quite a while since I have written regularly on my blog. I have quite a backlog of questions I have not gotten to answer yet, and these questions are the primary source of my blog posts. I basically decided to slow things down with the blog as of June 2009 so I could put more attention in other important things. I have written here and there, but not as regularly as I used to. But I am now in a position to start writing regularly again. Let me share with you what has been going on in my time off:

First, I needed to get a good chunk of research compilation time. I have been feeling lately that it is time to organize so much of my research into a book. I was not too ambitious about this, because it is a lot of work to organize research. I love taking notes and the research process itself. But to organize scattered research is a tedious task. What’s motivating this is the request from a publisher to write a series of books on subjects related to Catholic dating. So I have been preparing for that during this time, and am ready to actually work on the book. I hope to have the first one done by the summer.

Also, I was recording an album of my own music. I decided in June it was time to start. I have put it off for many, many years. It was completed at the end of December, and released a few weeks ago. You will notice my promotion of it on this blog, and you can read more about it at www.anthonybuono.net. Music is a hobby for me, and so is songwriting. I had a lot of my own songs I have long wanted to record with a band, and my band, Glass Onion (a Beatles tribute band), I felt was ready to do it. It was a lot of fun to work on this project with them, and I am very happy to have some songs recorded. I hope to work on the next album later this year. Music is part of who I am, and I love playing in the band and recording music.

Also, I have been working on an anti-pornography documentary, which is due to be released later this month. I really wanted to create something of high quality and very professional that would help ignite people, particularly men, to take action against pornography in their own lives as well as in their communities. So I chose to approach the project as a documentary that would outline the authentic dangers of pornography, and then focus on a solution that would inspire action. That solution is the story of Mark Houck and Damian Wargo, founders of The King’s Men apostolate, and their fight against the strip club called Coyotes that opened up right in their own community, and their tireless efforts to successfully shut it down. I am very excited about how many men will be inspired to take action against pornography in their lives because of this documentary.

Finally, something quite unexpected. I was approached by a close friend who is the founder of an amazing pro-life organization based out of Austin, Texas, to help get their organization established in Philadelphia. Their mission is simply to save the lives of babies through educating pregnant women via highly professional media outreach (primarily television commercials). I am always interested in saving babies, but feel more effective methods need to emerge in the pro-life movement using the media. I was very impressed to learn that the abortion rate in Austin has gone down 24% since they began their efforts 5 years ago. That is an unheard-of reduction rate. Their model is a proven one, and I cannot help but be inspired and excited about the prospects of saving thousands of babies in my home area of Philadelphia. So I have been working on getting that going as well. I am also hoping to share it more with many of you who are in the northeast area, especially Philadelphia, and that you will be open to helping me in this work. But more on that later. Feel free to contact me if you know you would be interested.

So that is the story of the last 6 months. Now I am back to a position of being able to write more regularly, and am starting to post again as of today.

Thank you for your patience, for your prayers, and for your support.

Yours in Christ,

Anthony