When Pope Benedict's Your Competition Then You Know You Did Something Right

When I was voting for all the About.com Catholicism Awards yesterday I couldn't help but feel sorry for the Twitter and Book finalist. Pope Benedict was nominated in both categories and was kicking ... well, he had a dominant lead, let's just say.

I heard from Emmaus Road Publishing this morning (I do layout on books for them):

Dear friends, ERP’s title Navigating the Interior Life: Spiritual Direction and the Journey to God by Dan Burke has been selected by the readers of the About.com Catholicism GuideSite (http://Catholicism.About.com) as one of the five finalists for Best Catholic Book of 2012 in the 2013 About Catholicism Readers' Choice Awards!  Please take a minute and vote for our title.  We have some pretty steep competition.  Currently Navigating is in second place behind Pope Benedict.  If we have to come in 2^nd I can’t think of a better person to lose to.  If you get a minute I would appreciate you taking the time to vote.  The link is below and you can vote once every 24 hours.  Thanks

If you haven't gone by the awards definitely check out the finalists. You can't lose, actually, because everything I've seen is worth your time.

(Ahem ... and if you wind up in the podcast category, check out ... and maybe even vote for ... A Good Story is Hard to Find.)