2014 brings a decision from SQPN to take a year off from hosting the conference and look toward 2015. From SQPN’s press release: The next Catholic New Media Conference will be held in the spring of 2015, ten years after Catholic podcasting took off around the events of the death of Saint John Paul II…
Read MoreMy good buddy, author and blogger, Sarah Reinhard, AKA the Snoring Scholar has a great reference piece up at OSV: “Untangling the Catholic Web”. Let me also share my Resources page at Among Women. Make sure your local church bulletins have this information too — share it with your pastors, church leaders, as well as your…
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“The Church needs to be concerned for, and present in, the world of communication, in order to dialogue with people today and to help them encounter Christ.” – Pope Francis – World Communications Day message, 2014 If evangelization is part of church’s identity, then spreading the message of the gospel is what we need to…
Read MoreA few generations back, you can understand why many Catholics didn’t see the need to evangelize. They could live their faith in their homes and parishes, and when they walked outside — going to work, or school or the playground — the cultural temperature didn’t feel that much different than it felt inside. For all…
Read MoreThe world of communications can help us either to expand our knowledge or to lose our bearings. The desire for digital connectivity can have the effect of isolating us from our neighbours, from those closest to us. … It is not enough to be passersby on the digital highways, simply “connected”; connections need to grow…
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You may remember my friends, Jonathan and Kristen Weiss? They are full-time missionaries supporting married couples, families, and single lay persons in mission work in five countries with Family Missions Company. Different than a missions outreach supported by the work of Catholic religious orders, this apostolate offers lay persons a temporary or permanent mission outreach…
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I’m getting prepped and excited to travel to churches in Peoria IL, Duluth MN, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, to celebrate the dignity, gifts, and mission of women! I’ll explore the themes of my book with talks and discussions. Plus, we’ll hear from local women themselves sharing what it means to be blessed, beautiful, and bodacious……
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I first met Lisa Hendey at the end of 2004 through an email. Who would have known what would become it? Eventually I was writing regularly for Catholic Mom, back then when there was a little more than a dozen of us offering columns there. Today there’s close to 150 writers at CatholicMom.com and over…
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As an affiliate podcaster with SQPN, and a member of the Board, it gives me great pleasure to see this press release from SQPN about the three podcasts under consideration in the Podcast Awards. From SQPN: Catholic Vitamins ‘Catholic Vitamins‘ is a weekly Catholic podcast produced by Deacon Tom Fox and his wife Dee. Every…
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Late last month, wedged between my recent speaking-related jaunts to New Hampshire and Minnesota, I was flown down to Irondale, AL to the studios of EWTN. I was the guest of EWTN at the request of Johnette Benkovic, the founder Women of Grace ministries and hostess to its related TV show and radio hour. Together we…
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Here it’s coffee and conversation, and where the faith-sharing is often a friendly mix of catechesis and cannoli. It’s a place where we can catch up…
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