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Church News

Where do you turn for news and information?

Posted by Lisa Hendey in News on Monday, July 18, 2011 4:42 PM

The blogosphere is abuzz this afternoon with commentary and speculation about the appointment of a new Archbishop for Philadelphia. Because no official announcement has been made, I prefer to wait until we have news from the Vatican or the USCCB before engaging in a discussion about this appointment, which will truly be historic and important for the future of our Church in the US.

I’m pondering the flow of information in today’s Church, and how something like this announcement differs now in an age of Facebook, Twitter and Google +. While I feel like this appointment is “big news”, I am also keenly aware that many of my fellow parishioners likely won’t hear the news, are completely unaware of the news, or don’t really pay attention to developments like these. Sometimes living in the little bubble of the Catholic blogosphere I inhabit gives me a skewed sense of the “real world”. I think many of my fellow parishioners get the bulk of their Catholic news and information from our weekly bulletin, or perhaps from a diocesan paper that is published five times per year.

Perhaps I am wrong about this news disconnect, but I wonder how you go about getting news and information about Catholic events and appointments. Is your first instinct to tune into secular media, local media, social networking contacts, or simply to wait until your parish mentions something? I also wonder how much more aware we are of national and global Catholic news given the social networking bonds we have built the tie us together in the Body of Christ. I now have friends and contacts in Pennsylvania who will be impacted by this important appointment, and my prayers today for them and for our Church leadership are perhaps stronger because of the bonds we’ve built at places like Facebook and here on Faith & Family.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this topic. Do you pay attention to developments like this one in our Church, and where do you go to find reliable news?

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Posted by StephC on Monday, Jul 18, 2011 5:36 PM (EDT):

Ha!  Well, a fine day *I* picked to spend at the pool—I’m in the Philly Achdiocese, it’s 5:30 on Monday, and your post caught me by surprise!
So, I go to my usual online sources for Catholic news:  NCRegister.com: nothing.  So I then go to the archdiocese website: Archphila.org….nada.

Just for kicks, I go to the website of the “official” diocesan newspaper, to which we stopped subscribing when the last editor was forced out & it became a high school sports rag: CST-phl.com…again, nada.

And then I go back to the Register’s site and see a headline on the left sidebar under “RNS”... but that turns out to be Rocco Palmo’s “Whispers in the Loggia” site…sorry, just not on *my* personal favorites for Catholic news. 

I usually do pay attn to these developments, but that’s my short go-to list, and after that, well, I have to wait til the kids are in bed b/c I’m trying not to zone out on them while I’m “newsgathering” online! grin

 
Posted by Claire on Monday, Jul 18, 2011 5:38 PM (EDT):

CatholicLane.com is really good.  It’s faithful to the magesterium, and keeps up on current events in the church.

 
Posted by Patricia on Monday, Jul 18, 2011 6:08 PM (EDT):

I get daily email news digests from Catholic News Agency (http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/) & Zenit - The World Seen From Rome (http://www.zenit.org/).

 
Posted by Monica (momof2) on Monday, Jul 18, 2011 7:28 PM (EDT):

I go to catholicnews.com, americanpapist.com, spiritdaily.com, catholicexchange.com, and the National Catholic Register website to name a few.  I have only rarely gone to our diocesan website for news and I don’t get any hard copy papers.

 
Posted by Totus Tuus in KS on Monday, Jul 18, 2011 8:42 PM (EDT):

Our Sunday Visitor (newspaper) and World Over Live on ewtn.  However on this one, it was facebook.  I also seem to live in a Catholic bubble with some of my FB friends.  PS thanks for the additional websites to bookmark smile

 
Posted by Meredith on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 8:06 AM (EDT):

I prefer EWTN and OSV too.  I generally see a headline on Yahoo or CNN or something like that and then go to another reliable source for veracity.

 
Posted by recentBaylorgrad on Monday, Jul 18, 2011 10:04 PM (EDT):

(As a note, I don’t much follow secular news - too depressing)
Top one for news would be Whispers in the Loggia.  More on the commentary side are Fr. Z at WDTPRS.com, Thomas Peters at American Papist, the Archbold brothers at Creative Minority Report, and the Anglo-Catholic (am currently a parishioner of an Anglican Use Catholic parish).

 
Posted by Robin on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 6:56 AM (EDT):

Interesting!

My homepage is mycatholic.com.  It allows you to select the news feed headlines that you prefer.  For me, I have Yahoo news for secular news, Catholic News Agency and Catholic World News for Catholic news, and different devotionals set up on the sides.  You just click on the headlines that interest you, and it takes you through to their website.  Zenit is also an option.

Guess you guys already know the news about Abp. Chaput, lucky dogs!  Most of these announcements come out on Tuesdays, n.b.

 
Posted by Meredith on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 8:07 AM (EDT):

Seriously!  I feel like I need to move to Philly!

 
Posted by Totus Tuus in KS on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 9:46 AM (EDT):

but remember that Abp. Chaput is a native of the Salina, Kansas Diocese smile

 
Posted by Mary on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 7:56 AM (EDT):

I go to headlinebistro.com. It’s always updated.

 
Posted by Kathleen on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 10:12 AM (EDT):

I check out the anchoress every day. She usually has good links to things that are happening. I have her original url saved in my computer, but she is on patheos now in the Catholic portal. She is wise and funny and very intelligent. I’ll post the proper link when I can,.

 
Posted by Kathleen on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 10:13 AM (EDT):

patheos.com/community/theanchoress

 
Posted by Emily on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 10:28 AM (EDT):

newadvent.org pulls from all the various sites listed above and links them all on one news page, so I get most of my Catholic news from there!

 
Posted by Sharon P on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 11:42 AM (EDT):

As a member of the philly diocese I learned of this news watching the local news last night.  I would have liked to learn of this thru our church announcement said during or at the end of mass.  It would have been nice to be informed before it was announced to the general public.

 
Posted by Ellie on Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 2:06 PM (EDT):

Sounds like the same way I found out the name of our new archbishop.  On a Monday morning on my way to work.  I would have thought it would have been announced at the Saturday evening and Sunday masses but it wasn’t.

 
Posted by Lisa Hendey on Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 8:31 AM (EDT):

The announcement wasn’t made yet over the weekend, so that’s why you didn’t hear it at Mass. I hope they will be discussing it this next weekend and would be curious to hear if an announcement is made.


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