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SQPN Europe has launched its first initiative directly aimed at one of the European countries: the internet magazine “Katholiek Leven” (’Catholic Life’). The website is geared at Dutch speaking catholics and offers help, inspiration and practical advice for day-to-day Catholic life.

“In many countries in Europe we’ve seen a steady religious decline” says Fr. Roderick, author of the new internet magazine. “This decline also has a considerable impact on the Catholic Church. More and more catholics abandon religious practice, and have no idea how to live a catholic life. It’s time to do something about it!”

Clear answers

Katholiekleven.nl offers clear answers to questions of faith, and gives practical tips and advise on topics like health, relations and family, money, time management and spirituality - all from a catholic perspective.

“People often ’shop around’ in various exotic religions to compile their own, individual mix of things that inspire them,” continues Fr. Roderick. “With this new catholic lifestyle magazine, we hope to show that there is an incredible treasure of wisdom much closer to home, in the living tradition of our own catholic faith!”

Positive response

Since it’s launch on Friday, the new website has welcomed more than 5000 visitors in just four days. “The response has been very encouraging, and over time, we might add more audio and video to the website as well. And if anyone wants to translate the articles from Dutch into English, let us know (info@sqpn.com), there might be an even bigger audience for this content than just the Dutch.”

In the mean time, captain Jeff provided us with a link to an automatic translation of the page by Google. It’s sometimes hilarious to see what the robot translator comes up with, but it will give you an idea of what the website is about, albeit in ‘Yoda-speak’:

http://tinyurl.com/29kppm