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Blogging and the Church
Topic Started: Thursday, 14. February 2008, 16:05 (1,750 Views)
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One of the bloggers who attended the February 15th seminar has posted a full report on his blog
Lacrimarum Valle
It's quite a long piece, and concludes:
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In conclusion, I will quote one of the bystanders from massinformation:

    What emerged, then, was a sense of renewed confidence in what the Church proposes to the World, and that that ought to be presented in as many ways as possible. The Church must beat the drum to which the World marches, because if the rhythm is handed over to the World, the Church suffers. It is the Church's experiences of engagement with the World which need to be reflected on, and assimilated or discarded as She deems appropriate, rather than the other way around. We need to balance Fr Zuhlsdorf's confidence in the rights of the laity with Br Lawrence's concern to respect the bishops and their pastoral and teaching office. We need, too, to balance this with the experiences of laymen like Matthew Doyle and parish priests like Fr Hunwicke.

The whole evening was a joy, and I was very pleased to be able to partake also in the overnight vigil afterwards. With slightly sore knees, I stumbled down the dark streets of St Aldates, grabbing a quick coffee-to-go from the "open till midnight" cafe of G & Ds, which was just enough to keep me awake on the dreaded M40 on the way back to Brum!


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The Catholic Herald has an interview with Fr.Z. available on the revamped website. He sounds a very interesting character, but the photograph looks as if it's from a gangster movie.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/f0000225.html

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For those unfamiliar with the internet, the name Fr Z (the "Z" is pronounced "zee") may mean little, but to thousands of wired-up Catholics across the globe, Fr John Zuhlsdorf's well-informed opinions, translations and analyses of matters liturgical are a daily reading requirement. Rumoured to have direct sources in very high places, he is read by members of the Roman Curia, bishops, priests, seminarians and lay people around the world. His articles have made their way into Curial meetings and he says that several bishops have consulted him on documents relating to Summorum Pontificum, the Apostolic Letter with which the Pope Benedict XVI liberated the traditional Mass. Fr Z is a true phenomenon of the information age: a power blogger and a priest.


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Father Val Farrell's Blog

This is the blog for Father Valentine Farrell in Blackpool and he's got a great biography of the new Bishop Co-Adjutor, Rev Michael Campbell OSA, the first Augustinian Bishop in these islands since 1532. There are also wonderful Lenten reflections, information of the Diocese of Lancaster and the parish of Holy Family in Blackpool. Father Val always has a lot of relevant information about the church to pass along, plus a few fun things as well. Always an excellent read.
Karin

Hvaljen Isus i Marija. Kraljica Mira, moli za nas.
"Praised be Jesus and Mary. Queen of Peace, Pray for Us."

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I've found some nuns' blogs. I think blogging would be a lovely hobby for a lady who has taken a vow of silence, but these nuns are not in silent orders.

Dominican Sisters

That blog is impersonal, mainly informative.

Sister Mary Martha (USA)

I rather like Sister Mary Martha. She has a sense of humour. Her hobbies are listed as * dusting pews
* scrubbing floors on hands and knees
* hours of comtemplative prayer
* terrorizing children

The front page of her blog says

Ask Sister Mary Martha

Life is tough. But Nuns are tougher. If you need helpful advice just Ask Sister Mary Martha. She'll help you. Just don't expect any sympathy.


:D
Keep the Faith!

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Rose of York
Mar 3 2008, 09:14 PM


The front page of her blog says

Ask Sister Mary Martha

Life is tough. But Nuns are tougher. If you need helpful advice just Ask Sister Mary Martha. She'll help you. Just don't expect any sympathy.


:D

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I do think one should point out, without engaging in the argument, that the Ten Commandments and the laws of the Church are either God's laws or they or not. This person seems to be interested in being a Catholic which means following the tenets of the faith, not the tenents of what Joe Schmoe cobbles together for himself and his comfort level.

Send him to me. I'll box his ears, make him stand in the corner, kneel on dried peas, wash his mouth out with soap, put his nose in a circle on the blackboard, clap erases together and write a thousand times, "I will not make up my religion." Whatever it takes.

As for Communion, we do not have the Communion Rail Police, or mortal sin counters. There is no chemical available in the Communion line that points out that something is not right like there is for swimming pools. We all know the deal, but we're just going to have to let it go and mind our own beeswax.


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Thanks, Rose, that's one to save.

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I'm becoming addicted to reading blogs - can anyone recommend a suitable counselling programme?
In the meantime, I recommend a look at Ttony's blog The Muniment Room

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KatyA
Mar 6 2008, 07:51 PM
I'm becoming addicted to reading blogs - can anyone recommend a suitable counselling programme?
In the meantime, I recommend a look at Ttony's blog The Muniment Room

KatyA

I would have thought that reading my blog was a counselling programme all in itself

cut and thrust = 0
opiniated drivel = 1
translations from obscure Spanish bloggers = 1
odd American quizzes = 1
vocal support for the Hierarchy = 0
whinging =1

Why do I blog?

My last posting on totalcatholic repeated a mistake I made once on Holysmoke of taking a professional journalist to task over something wrong he'd written: if there is one thing professional journalists can do well, it's wipe the floor (in print) with any amateur who comes along!

If you come along to my blog it's because you're interested - or at least curious. You don't have to stay, you don't have to comment, and you don't have to get into a discussion.

Forums (other than this one, of course!) can be a bit heavy, and it would be rude to post a comment on one and then not bother to look to see who had responded, and to engage with them.
Ttony
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http://ttonys-blog.blogspot.com/
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Mar 6 2008, 08:53 PM
If you come along to my blog it's because you're interested - or at least curious.  You don't have to stay, you don't have to comment, and you don't have to get into a discussion.

I like your blog, Ttony. It is honest, not heavily confrontational, a pleasure to read, and it has some good links to other sites. For those interested here is a snippet I found when I clicked on of the links on your blog:

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The Long View
December 27, 2007

Cricket is a useful metaphor for all sorts of things.  It teaches patience: something which in its ordinary form lasts a day, and in its extraordinary forms lasts between three hours and five days can never be reduced to instant gratification; satisfaction comes from long periods of strategic thinking punctuated by moments of sheer brilliance.

The current Pontificate seems to me more and more like the Edgebaston Test of the 2003 Ashes: it is absolutely absorbing.  The Pope has taken a long view about the importance of winning the Battle of the Liturgy; his opponents think that they can just turn up and win.  They think that he has some respectable players on his side, but are ignoring the fact that he has developed them, and continues to develop them, as a team.  They think, deep down, that they are invincible.  We know that they are wrong.



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The Curt Jester suggests some alternatives to "Baby Einstein" products
Baby Augustine

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Mar 10 2008, 02:57 PM
The Curt Jester suggests some alternatives to "Baby Einstein" products
Baby Augustine

Let me take everyone's tongues right out of their respective cheeks again and suggest:

Holy Baby! DVDs



. . . and now, back to the blogs :topicbaack:
The root problem in a lot of bad catechesis is ultimately not ignorance, but pride. ~ Mark Shea

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Here's a good blog. It belongs to our very own William of Bow.

http://www.williamonthehill.typepad.co.uk/
Keep the Faith!

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I came across this blog The Fullness of Faith by an ex-Anglican vicar, now a Catholic lay prison chaplain.
Monday's entry on the National Prison Chaplains Conference made me smile.
The preceeding entry on 5 April concerns tips for evangelisation - and since he is a convert, he probably has some good ideas.

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In a previous post I bemoaned the lack of Catholic Evangelism compared with that of some of the protestant groups. In the comments on that post Bernadette asked me what my top 5 tips for evangelism are. That will teach me to throw moaning comments into the Blogosphere!

Well I can't pretend to be an expert, but I have thought about her question and have some suggestions... I'd be interested in other peoples suggestions as well... so here are my top 5 tips:

Click the link above for his tips.

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The Oxford University Newman Society hosted a 'Bloggers' Colloquium' in the Catholic Chaplaincy on 15 February 2008 to discuss the phenomenon of blogging and its impact on the Church and the world. Br Lawrence Lew OP was invited to give one of the talks; here is a snip ffrom an abridged version of his talk on Godzdogz
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So, what can we say in our blogs? St Paul says: “Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel”. And so, I believe that the blogosphere, and indeed, other instruments of the internet, can help us in the mission given to all the baptised. This is not surprising, for if we are preachers of the gospel, we will naturally use everything in our lives and in our world to give glory to him who has saved us and to preach his Word to all nations. Joseph Ratzinger once said: “The Church will have to develop a great deal of imagination to help the gospel remain a force in public life, so that it may shape the people and pervade their life and work among them like yeast.” The internet is just one such area of public life, and it will work for good if we write about the Gospel, seek to disseminate truth and balanced opinion, and help shape our readers in virtue. Perhaps we can take other pointers from Ratzinger. He noted that “nowadays, particularly among the most modern representatives of Catholicism, there is a tendency toward uniformity… I believe that a great deal of tolerance is required within the Church, that the diversity of paths is something in accordance with the breadth of Catholicity – and that one ought not simply to reject it, even when it is something contrary to one’s own taste.” So, there are blogs for every taste, and it is good that these flourish in the Church and work together for the common good and serve the mission of the Church.

In an aphorism commonly attributed to St Augustine, he is believed to have said, “in essentials, unity; in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things, charity.” This should be the creed of all our social communications. It is with care, study and prudence that we are able to distinguish between essentials and doubtful matters, and if we should fear anything in blogging, let us fear a failure in charity.


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Fr.Selvester, at Shouts in the Piazza has some information about papal footwear on his blog. The Pope does not wear Prada!
I did not know the reason Popes wore red shoes either before reading this blog.

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The Pope probably gets one of his aides to look for cheap footwear on e Bay.
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