Surprisingly, my favorite genre of book is the biography. This is strange because normally I could care less what someone else does with their life. Oh they make more money than me? Good for them. Screw off.

Join us all this week for true "Best of" shows. The best moments in Catholic Guy History...going back all the way to day number 1 of the big show. Enjoy! We are back LIVE Tuesday September 6th with the new and improved "Catholic Guy Show with Lino Rulli and Father Rob Keighron". Have a great week and safe Labor day weekend.

First the Earthquake on Tuesday, the expected landfall of Hurricane Irene this weekend and finally, the fact that Lino saw John Cusak drive by in a limo that had no door spooked Lino enough that he is fleeing New York City while he can get out. Because of this today will be a "Best Of."

So I'm listening to Lino talk about his upcoming book so I decide to go to the Barnes and Noble website (I'm getting the ebook for my Nook) and there's a whole list of books with "Sinner" in the name.

So there, unknown woman who thinks MY Catholic Guy is too short and has a funny face.

From what I heard on the show today, a woman out of the blue messaged Lino on one of the dating web sites he is a member of, and told him that he was too short and had too funny looking of a face for her to be seen in public with him.

Now, there is such a thing as a joke. Throwing a goofy insult into an email and pairing it with a genuine compliment would be a joke in good taste.

But this message came out of nowhere and ended with one of those holier than thou "Best wishes in your search" taglines. Hearing someone put down Lino, who by all accounts is a genuinely attractive and nice looking man, is beyond childish.

It's so childish that I feel silly addressing it in a blog post, but I needed to vent. With so much cyber-bullying and rudeness that is out there, people need to take a stand even if it seems like a small, trivial issue (I don't think Lino feels bullied, but behavior like that shouldn't be tolerated).

What nerve does someone have randomly messaging people and telling them their alleged faults and imperfections. I'm sure this woman has her own imperfections, and if someone pointed out to her in person that her face looks like the surface of the moon, and that her teeth resembled Christmas lights, she would be up in arms about how rude other people can be.

If that mystery person happens to be reading this, let it be said: We don't have to see a photo of you to know how ugly you really are: Actions show a much clearer image than any mirror.

I for one enjoyed the broadcasts from World Youth Day (I'll probably never be able to see an event like that in person unless it comes stateside).

Regardless, as much as I like Lino on special shows, I like the shows better when its inside the studio and the crew is doing the normal thing. It's not as exciting for Lino I'm sure, but for me it's when he does his best radio work.

I think my favorite part of World Youth Day was the day when Irish pilgrims started chanting his name. That was a kick in the pants.

Not sure when Lino will be back on the air, but I do know one thing for certain: It ought to be excellent hearing all of those stories!

Thanks to everyone who wrote to The Catholic Channel asking for more coverage. Our email campaign was not successful enough to get more than one hour, but at least we were able to let our voices be heard. One can only pray that the next time Lino or any show is sent to do coverage of such a great event in The Church, they are given more than one hour to do coverage.

Easily the dumbest radio decision anyone can make.

That bitterness out of the way, I thought today's World Youth Day coverage was really great. Part of me was surprised that Fr. Rob was on the show: all of the promos TCC runs only mention Brett Siddell and Lino Rulli. But the three had great chemistry (creepy), and Brett's segment at the end of the show where he tried to meet people from different countries and find out people's ages was very good.

You can hear the coverage of World Youth Day each day this week at 4 p.m. ET and at 9 p.m. ET. on The Catholic Channel, Sirius XM 129.

A short congratulations to our very own blogger Doug in Kansas. He and his wife just had a new baby today. Her name is Ava Marie, and she's pretty healthy.

If she grows up to marry a real guy named Doug from Kansas, that'll be a treat.

Congratulations Jim from all of us here. God bless you and your wonderful family!

I'm going to show my age here a little bit, but I remember suffering through summers when we only had three television channels. During the summer all of the television shows were repeats and we had to wait until the fall for new television shows. Even today with a million channels and a hundred television shows out there, we still have to suffer through our favorite shows going through an occasional hiatus. Unless you like watching soap operas you are going to have to suffer through reruns.

I have been listening to the Best ofs on the radio and the podcast on my iPhone to get my Lino-fix this week.

No, we don't know anything about the success or failure of our email campaign to get more TCGS from World Youth Day. However, on Friday's show, Lino mentioned that they are taking a week off to get ready for Fr. Rob's debut as a full-time cast member. Among one of the things Lino said they were working on was an iphone app.

Back on May 1, we suggested this very same thing. Among the things we really wanted out of an app was the ability to hear the live show by logging in with your Sirius XM subscription, and then being able to listen to the same replay on a loop until the next broadcast. This would really give people who missed part of the show a chance to catch up on what they missed, and give the rest of us the ability to enjoy our favorite parts over and over.

I realize that Sirius XM might see this as competition to the app they have, but I think an app that lets you use your Sirius XM subscription to get more out of shows you love would only make the subscription more appealing.

Maybe, just this one time, our dreams will come true.

With Lino going to World Youth Day in Spain to cover the event, I thought I'd be getting three hours of fun, much like the shows in Rome after pilgrimages.

Instead, Lino announced that the mustaches at Sirius XM said he could only do one hour. Not two, not 90 minutes. Just one.

Is it just me, or does this seem extremely short-sighted and ignorant? The Catholic Channel already has Lino, Fr. Rob and Brett Siddell on site. Why not take advantage of that opportunity and broadcast more than one hour a day?

For the life of me, I cannot figure out the rationale used in determining that only one hour is necessary. It's not like Lino and crew are covering some joke like John Corapi. This is the once-ever-three-years World Youth Day complete with appearances from Pope Benedict XVI. Why send the crew if you are only going to do an hour a day? That seems like a waste of valuable resources.

Besides, is a replay really more important than a coverage of an even that attracts hundreds of thousands of young Catholics every year? I have no doubt EWTN will have more than one hour of daily coverage: if they can do it, I know The Catholic Channel can do it too.

With one more week to go, I think there is still time to get The Catholic Channel to change their minds on this. I urge everyone reading this post to send an email to cc@thecatholicchannel.org and politely ask that more coverage of the event is absolutely necessary.

If you don't have the time to type, but still want your voice heard, here is a short form letter that you can copy and paste into the email.

I am writing to ask that you please give Catholic Channel listeners more than one hour of daily World Youth Day coverage. I believe that this is a very newsworthy, important event in The Catholic Church, and that you are doing listeners of this channel a great disservice by limiting coverage.

I ask that you reconsider the amount of time each day you devote to covering this event. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely

With enough emails, we can hopefully convince The Catholic Channel to give us the coverage that we deserve.

The Catholic Guy Show is in "Best Of" mode this week...however, this doesn't mean we aren't hard at work. Lino is preparing to broadcast from World Youth Day in Madrid Spain next week. The broadcast will air daily from 4-5pm EST and then replay at 9-10pm EST during the last hour of the Busted Halo Show. Besides all the World Youth Day preparations, we are getting ready to welcome Fr. Rob Keighron to the show full time...5 days a week!
So, in the mean time...follow Lino on Facebook and Twitter (visit catholicguy.com for the links). Also check out this week's new podcast at ITUNES or catholicguy.com.

Hey everyone,
Thought I would give a quick recap on a few things from the show this week. First, as many have probably already heard, Father Rob Keighron will be joining the Catholic Guy Show full time in September! Fr. Rob 5 days a week... This will be a great thing that will take the show in a whole new and refreshing direction. In anticipation of that, there is a lot of things that need to happen behind the scenes...so the week of August 8th will be "Best of" shows in order to get a lot of that done. Plus, Father Rob and Lino will be headed to Spain to prepare LIVE (to tape) broadcasts from World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain. Lino will be doing a daily one hour broadcast as well as calling in to all of the other shows on the channel. It should be a great week of programming for the Catholic Channel.

In the world of the Biggest Catholic Loser, both Lino and Father Rob reached their weight goals. Father Rob succesfuly lost 32lbs and Lino (barely) gained his 10 pounds of muscle. Congrats to the both of them.

If you have been listening, you may have heard that we have started a new contest! Send us a song parody about Father Rob joining the show for your chance at a Lino Rulli bobble head. Submit your entries at catholicguy.com

Enjoy the show today! - Father Jim Chern will be stopping by the big show

It never fails, I hop in the car and turn on the radio and turn it to The Catholic Guy Show. Within about five minutes, my beautiful wife Abby gets annoyed and either starts actually making comments about not liking the show or makes those grunts and sighs that make you well aware that she is not happy. I've been married for 18 years and one of the reasons why we remain happily married is because I subscribe to the mantra, "If Abby ain't happy, ain't nobody going to be happy." So, I end up changing the channel. This stinks though . . . I LOVE listening to TCGS. I've been a Sirius subscriber since 2008 when I got my car. The only reason I've renewed my subscription is because of Lino's show. I listen to his podcasts (which makes it easier to steal his jokes when no one has heard them for several months) I even pre-ordered his book, Sinner (which can be ordered from the link on this page)

At least twice in the past two weeks, Lino has patiently explained why his mother will not have a segment on the show every day. The fans have been clamoring (well, maybe just asking) for her to be a regular on the show. As Lino said, while she enjoys coming on from time to time, she has her own life in Minnesota.

On today's show, Lino Rulli mentioned that he found yet another grammatical mistake in his upcoming autobiography Sinner (preorder links at the top and side of this blog), and how it frustrated him.

He wanted to be the one author that didn't have those kinds of mistakes in a book that he spent so long working on. On the surface, it's easy to dismiss Lino's contempt for mistakes as foolish. "What's wrong with you Lino, stop being such a perfectionist."

I initially thought that, but then took the time to think of my own life. How many times do I strive for perfection, fail, and get annoyed by it. True, I don't have an autobiography coming out in the next few months, but I design the bulletin for Fr. Jim's campus ministry each week, and when there's a flaw, I get so frustrated. True, most people don't care that one photo has part of it's caption in bold while the other does not, but I see the mistake as something I messed up. I see the mistake as a flaw in my work, which eats away at me until I create the next bulletin.

How then is Lino any different from me, or the person who panics that the cupcakes they made for guests didn't turn out 100 percent correct? Or the soccer player that scores two goals but whifs on the third and focuses only on the miss? He's not any different than someone who loves and cherishes what they do each day.

If anything, hearing Lino's complaints about bad grammar makes me even more anxious to read the book. If he spent that much time worrying about grammar, how much more did he worry about the book's content? This is a man who spent Christmas break in a monastery just to write.

If that commitment to excellence doesn't excite you to buy the book, then you must hate literature.