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YinYangMom
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This is most interesting. I’ve seen a couple of parish websites where priests post videos of their homilies and some of the holiday masses. I wondered if it resulted in fewer people attending mass or more, but I would think it comes in handy for parishioners who want to share what they heard but couldn’t remember the details. There are some parts of a homily that don’t translate well, you know, those “you had to be there” moments.
As for blogging, that would be interesting.
Concerns I see off the bat are resources and content. I’m sure the Pope himself isn’t setting up this multimedia stuff he’s generating. He must have a staff that’s devoted to it, with an appropriate budget to pay their salaries, but also for the equipment and technolgy needed to put the message out there.
If the Pope wants priests to utilize the internet I hope he will allocate funds to each and every parish around the world to pay for the website and servers, as well as hiring at least one IT person per parish, as well as training courses for those involved in the projects.
Yes, blogging is basic and simple, but when he says he wants multimedia to be used that involves video production, streaming, editing, and that reguires more training and experience to pull off effectively.
As for content, we all know there are many parishes whose priests do not necessary preach teachings in line with Rome, will there be some sort of oversight the Pope plans to institute to make sure the correct message is being transmitted? As is it, the Pope is supposed to be overseeing content but that’s not going very well from what I can tell. Leaving oversight to the bishops seems to be less than adequate.
Then there’s the time factor. In my parish our priests are already overworked. They’re also not tech savy and our budget runs in the deficit most weeks. We had to lay off some staff members and reduce hours for others. Without a tech person the project would be very time consuming for a priest to set up and maintain by himself. At least that’s the impression I have of other bloggers. It seems they must spend a good chunk of their day maintaining it.
As for blogging, that would be interesting.
Concerns I see off the bat are resources and content. I’m sure the Pope himself isn’t setting up this multimedia stuff he’s generating. He must have a staff that’s devoted to it, with an appropriate budget to pay their salaries, but also for the equipment and technolgy needed to put the message out there.
If the Pope wants priests to utilize the internet I hope he will allocate funds to each and every parish around the world to pay for the website and servers, as well as hiring at least one IT person per parish, as well as training courses for those involved in the projects.
Yes, blogging is basic and simple, but when he says he wants multimedia to be used that involves video production, streaming, editing, and that reguires more training and experience to pull off effectively.
As for content, we all know there are many parishes whose priests do not necessary preach teachings in line with Rome, will there be some sort of oversight the Pope plans to institute to make sure the correct message is being transmitted? As is it, the Pope is supposed to be overseeing content but that’s not going very well from what I can tell. Leaving oversight to the bishops seems to be less than adequate.
Then there’s the time factor. In my parish our priests are already overworked. They’re also not tech savy and our budget runs in the deficit most weeks. We had to lay off some staff members and reduce hours for others. Without a tech person the project would be very time consuming for a priest to set up and maintain by himself. At least that’s the impression I have of other bloggers. It seems they must spend a good chunk of their day maintaining it.
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tinalewis
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Our priest is a fabulous homilist. I and many others would love to see him blog, but I believe he’d really shine with a podcast. 
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Lief_Erikson
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Praise God for blogging priests! I hope many heed the Pope’s guidance on this!
Lord, please help any that are unfamiliar with the technology or uncomfortable with evangelism to spread new wings of the Spirit and overcome all barriers through Christ our Lord, Amen!
Praise be to God.
Lord, please help any that are unfamiliar with the technology or uncomfortable with evangelism to spread new wings of the Spirit and overcome all barriers through Christ our Lord, Amen!
Praise be to God.
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lutherlic
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I think it would be great for priests to blog (and some do!) but as a new blogger I can now tell you first hand just how time consuming it is.
There are already a lot of great Catholic blogs that inspired me. I felt (and still feel) the need to add my voice to the blogosphere (I am a convert who will be received in 4 days!). There are really 2 big issues.
First are technical issues, the blogging platform, the template, customizations (fortunately I have lots of web experience), subscription paths (facebook gave me fits), structure (labels, archives, commenting, etc.), promotion (badges, search engines, etc.), and a bunch more. Some of this can be ignored but I think the truth is a great blog, poorly presented or promoted will be read by few.
The second issue is content. Of course, that is the real reason to bother at all but a few ideas for blog posts does not make something people will be drawn to follow. Publishing quality content on a dependable schedule is critical. Doing that is a lot of work. I might just be slow, but each post takes me 4 to 6 hours including writing, fact checking, formatting, getting the right graphic, etc.
Honestly - I don’t know how most priests would find the time.
There are already a lot of great Catholic blogs that inspired me. I felt (and still feel) the need to add my voice to the blogosphere (I am a convert who will be received in 4 days!). There are really 2 big issues.
First are technical issues, the blogging platform, the template, customizations (fortunately I have lots of web experience), subscription paths (facebook gave me fits), structure (labels, archives, commenting, etc.), promotion (badges, search engines, etc.), and a bunch more. Some of this can be ignored but I think the truth is a great blog, poorly presented or promoted will be read by few.
The second issue is content. Of course, that is the real reason to bother at all but a few ideas for blog posts does not make something people will be drawn to follow. Publishing quality content on a dependable schedule is critical. Doing that is a lot of work. I might just be slow, but each post takes me 4 to 6 hours including writing, fact checking, formatting, getting the right graphic, etc.
Honestly - I don’t know how most priests would find the time.
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Lief_Erikson
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Interesting . . . Thanks for the insight, lutherlic.
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eucharisteo
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Maybe I’ll send a text message to Pope benny
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Lief_Erikson
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Maybe I’ll send a text message to Pope benny
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