Comments on: Breaking: Catholics to Join the Blogosphere

By: Mrs. Jackson

Mrs. Jackson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:05:14 +0000

That’s it! NPR needs a new tagline. Isn’t theirs “If we won’t do it, who will?”

In this specific case, the Roman Catholic Priests will, thank you very much NPR. May we have our tax dollars back, NOW?

This “news item” of the Pope urging priests to blog was actually reported on the day it was actually announced last September 29, 20009 at Owl of the Remove blog. See:

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Pope to Priests: “Get Blogging!”

Well, he didn’t put it exactly like that, but the Pontifical Council for Social Communications released today the theme for World Communications Day, which will be released on January 24th, the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, Patron of writers and journalists. It says that the Papal message will seek to “invite priests, in a particular way….to consider new media as a great resource for their ministry of service to the Word.” Just as I was thinking it was time to give up the blog!

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If First Things readers are not aware of Owl of the Remove – do check it out. Father is an Englishman living in Vermont -the poor guy. He’s not a blogging machine but he’s a splendid blogger – lots of wonderful mentioning of things literary as well as Catholic. And he’s fun. A rare spot of civility in the blogosphere:

http://owloftheremove.blogspot.com/

By: Jeff Doles

Jeff Doles — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:18:02 +0000

What? You mean this is not just a passing fad?

By: Michael Liccione

Michael Liccione — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:25:59 +0000

Hey Joe, I had a very active Catholic blog for several years until I came to work for this outfit! (http://mliccione.blogspot.com) Sometimes my combox would run to well over 100 entries. Also, I was a co-author for a year and a half (2006-07) at a blog called “Pontifications,” by an Episcopal priest who talked himself into becoming a Catholic. It won lots of awards and was highly trafficked.

In general, the Catholic laity are very active in the blogosphere. Even I couldn’t keep up with it all. There’s a lot of good stuff out there, and it just keeps increasing. The problem is that, because the Catholic clergy haven’t been well represented therein, most people don’t notice just how big the Catholic blogosphere really is. And I don’t foresee that changing much. Good priests are already in such huge real-life demand that few of them have any time to run a blog.

That said, Here are a few well-established blogs by priests:

http://www.wdtprs.com

http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com

http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com