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Fr. Roderick shares some tips on how to make the most of your monday mornings in the newest episode of ‘Health and Holiness’.
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Jeff Nielsen
Fr. Corapi: Once called “Father,” now called “The Black Sheepdog”
The Catholic Weekend crew discusses this bombshell, and much more.
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Fr. Roderick
Gandalf’s Colleague
We all know Gandalf, the wizard that protected Frodo and his fellowship during their journey through Tolkien’s Middle-earth. But what do we know about his colleague Radagast the Brown?
In the latest episode of Secrets of Middle-earth, Inge and Laura team up with Fr. Roderick to explore the area of the Lone Lands and to meet with Radagast the Brown.
What is the role of these ‘wizards’ in Tolkien’s books? Are they wizards like Dumbledore from the Harry Potter books, or is there more to them?
Click here to listen to the episode or to subscribe to the podcast!
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Fr. Roderick
Pat Gohn of ‘About Women’ on Catholic Weekend
Pat Gohn recently celebrated the production of her 100th episode of the podcast “Among Women”. She is a special guest on the latest episode of ‘Catholic Weekend’.
SQPN’s director Steve Nelson also joins the show to talk about the upcoming Catholic New Media Conference. Registration is now open!
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Kathleen Herbert
Word On Fire
By Kathleen Herbert
In my last article, I wrote about resources to help us learn more about what we as Catholics believe and why. Ever on the lookout for such websites, I’d like to recommend another website that includes articles as well as videos and current events regarding the Catholic faith.
Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, based in Illinois, cannot be easily characterized. Endorsed by Francis Cardinal George of Chicago, Pope John Paul II’s biographer George Weigel and Professor of Theology and author Scott Hahn, Fr. Robert Barron’s website http://www.WordonFire.org is a bountiful aggregation of articles, video and audio podcasts, movie reviews, weekly sermons, television shows, a set of DVDs on the topic of Catholicism filmed in 15 countries around the world, as well as topics as diverse as Woody Allen to Thomas Aquinas to Bob Dylan. Want Father’s take on The Sopranos or No Country for Old Men? As your mother used to say, “Look it up!”
Have a question as to why Catholics go to confession, why the Church considers abortion murder, vampires ala Buffy or Twilight, heresies, hell, bin Laden or the sex abuse scandal, Fr. Barron takes on the topic with insightful articles or videos.
Be forewarned. Once you visit the site, you’ll probably spend hours reading, watching, studying, pondering and then your attention is diverted to another topic where the process starts all over again. The Community Forum is a place for readers to gather and talk amongst themselves on topics as diverse as the opinions of the members.
The web is filled with websites; give WordOnFire a try. I’m betting you won’t be disappointed.
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Fr. Roderick
Vatican Website Gets Pentecost Makeover
The main website of the Vatican has been restyled on the Solemnity of Pentecost. While the portal retains its characteristic ‘parchment’ look, the menu has been restyled and modernized.
The new layout of the page makes it easier to access the various writings of pope Benedict XVI, and the links pertaining to the Vatican city state have been moved to the right hand side of the page.
The menus on the underlying pages also have been slightly modernized.
The restyling of the website precedes the highly anticipated launch of the Vatican news portal NEWS.va. That website is “coming soon” – visitors can leave their email address on the site to be notified when NEWS.va goes live.
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Fr. Roderick
‘Odomatically’
Summer monasteries; Secrets of Babylon 5; review of The Spy Game; Spider-Man 3; Steve Jobs and the iCloud; E3 news from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
This episode is sponsored by David Ianni. Check out his website and his awesome piano music here: http://www.davidianni.com
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Fr. Roderick
CNMC 2011 Features Extra Day of Training
As a new feature of this year’s Catholic New Media Conference, the SQPN Catholic Media Guild will organize an extra day of formation and training for anyone involved in Catholic media. This will take place at the Savior Pastoral Center on Friday, September 30th, the day before the CNMC.
A hands-on set of workshops, these sessions will help you learn how to use the latest technology and the most recent developments in new media to reach out to the world. From the iPad to the Android, from iPhone to social networks and blogs: we teach you how to publish your creative content and to engage your audience.
These workshops are geared toward priests, deacon, religious and any individuals and parish workers who are interested in hands-on learning about social media and how it can be best used in their parish/school activities, organizations, etc.
REGISTRATION
Details of the conference program and registration information are available at the CNMC conference website at cnmc.sqpn.com.
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Fr. Roderick
Director of Vatican Radio Speaks at CNMC 2011
This year, the Catholic New Media Conference welcomes a special keynote speaker from the Vatican: Mr. Seàn Patrick Lovett.Director of Vatican Radio’s FM Channel One-O-Five Live and the station’s English and Italian Language Sections since 2001, describes himself as “Irish by blood, African by birth and Italian by adoption.”
A man of many credentials, Mr. Lovett began working at Vatican Radio under Pope Paul VI in 1977. He followed John Paul II on many of his international pilgrimages for 26 years, founded Vatican Radio’s plurilinguistic, multimedial, interactive radio channel, Jubileum, during the Jubilee Year 2000, and is a Professor of Social Communications at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (courses in radio, television, and personal expressive techniques).
An author and a professor, he has traveled the world teaching others how to use media and to communicate effectively. For more than 25 years, he accompanied Bl. Pope John Paul II on his world travels. He is even a former professor of SQPN’s own Fr. Roderick Vonhogen.
As a keynote speaker at the CNMC 2011, Seàn Patrick Lovett will share his rich experience and some fascinating stories about Catholic communication in the world of today!
More information about the 2011 Catholic New Media Celebration at the website CNMC.SQPN.COM
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Hugh Macken
This is great news. Matt Warner (from Flocknote) told me great things about CNMC and it looks like it will be a very worthwhile learning experience for all who attend. Many blessings to all of you at sqpn! I hope to be able to make it there too if at all possible!
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steve
CNMC 2011: Register Now!
Registration for the 4th Annual Catholic New Media Conference is now open!
SQPN’s annual conference on new media will be held at the Savior Pastoral Center of the Archdiocese of Kansas City from September 30th to October 2nd, 2011.
The 2011 CNMC will focus on the Social Network. More than ever before, we are connected through modern media with people from all over the world. What does this mean for our culture, and how can the Church participate in this network to help build a better tomorrow? The CNMC will explore how Catholics can participate in social media with a true sense of mission.
Registration is now open at http://cnmc.sqpn.com. All interested in New Media are invited, including young adults (18+), ministry leaders, and priests and religious, to whom Pope Benedict appealed in his 2010 World Communications Day message, to “become an ever more pastoral presence on the web.”
SPECIAL GUESTS
Keynote speakers for the conference will be Sr. Anne Flanagan, FSP and Mr. Seàn Patrick Lovett.
SR.ANNE FLANAGAN – a native of New Orleans, has been a Daughter of St. Paul for over thirty years. In print media, she is the author of “Come to Jesus! A Kids Book for Eucharistic Adoration” and a contributor to “I Will Remember You: My Catholic Guide through Grief” and to the Lectio Divina Series (Advent Grace, Lenten Grace, Easter Grace, Ordinary Grace), all from Pauline Books & Media. Active in new media since her Vatican days, Twitter’s Nunblogger maintains five blogs and three Ustream channels for her community’s apostolate. She is on the new media advisory board and the apps creation committee for Pauline Books & Media and is a guest blogger for the religion feature of the Chicago Tribune.SEÀN PATRICK LOVETT – Director of Vatican Radio’s FM Channel One-O-Five Live and the station’s English and Italian Language Sections since 2001, describes himself as “Irish by blood, African by birth and Italian by adoption.” A man of many credentials, Mr. Lovett began working at Vatican Radio under Pope Paul VI in 1977. He followed John Paul II on many of his international pilgrimages for 26 years, founded Vatican Radio’s plurilinguistic, multimedial, interactive radio channel, Jubileum, during the Jubilee Year 2000, and is a Professor of Social Communications at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (courses in radio, television, and personal expressive techniques).PROGRAM
In addition to the keynote presentations by Sr. Flanagan and Mr. Lovett, the CNMC program will include two breakout tracks.
Social Media Spirituality – This track, presented by Lisa Hendey (CatholicMom.com and author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms); and Pat Gohn (AmongWomenPodcast.com and columnist for Patheos, Catholic Exchange and others), will focus on the spiritual formation of Catholic communicators in the online world and the tools and resources that are available to assist them.
Blogging & Social Media Techniques – This track will delve into the specifics of modernizing parish and organizational websites and the best ways to function in the world of social media. Mr. Matthew Warner (Founder of flockNote.com) will be one of the presenters for this track.
CATHOLIC MEDIA GUILD WORKSHOPS
As a new feature of the conference, the SQPN Catholic Media Guild will organize an extra day of formation and training for anyone involved in Catholic media. This will take place at the Savior Pastoral Center on Friday, September 30th, the day before the CNMC.
A hands-on set of workshops, these sessions will help you learn how to use the latest technology and the most recent developments in new media to reach out to the world. From the iPad to the Android, from iPhone to social networks and blogs: we teach you how to publish your creative content and to engage your audience.
These workshops are geared toward priests, deacon, religious and any individuals and parish workers who are interested in hands-on learning about social media and how it can be best used in their parish/school activities, organizations, etc.
REGISTRATION
Details of the conference program and registration information are available at the CNMC conference website at cnmc.sqpn.com.
LOCATION
The CNMC will be held at the Savior Pastoral Center, a former seminary complex in Kansas City, Kansas. The Pastoral Center is a retreat and conference center operated by the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. Located on a 100 acre campus west of downtown Kansas City, its address is: 12601 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, Kansas, 66109.
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Tim 5:22 pm on July 25, 2011 Permalink |
Discovered Father Barron froma Lisa Hendey podcast 2 years ago and I highly recommend his web site and podcasts. We started a men’s group last Lent that used his dvd workshop “Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Lively Virtues” and the guys really got something out of it
John Clem 1:12 am on July 15, 2011 Permalink |
Another great clip today from The Catholicism Project about the Holy Eucharist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVLBUK5FGw&feature=player_embeddedu00a0n
John Clem 6:00 pm on July 9, 2011 Permalink |
Just ordered new book called The Church and New Media that features chapters written by both Father Barron and SQPN’s Lisa Hendey. u00a0I have written about this new book in my latest blog: http://www.calltoholiness.us/?p=208u00a0
John Clem 11:43 pm on June 29, 2011 Permalink |
For the Solemnity today of Saints Peter & Paul, Father Barron had released an exclusive clip regarding Peter & Paul from his upcoming Catholicism Project Video.nnhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8qUW7IxapdUu00a0
John Clem 11:11 am on June 16, 2011 Permalink |
Great blog Kathy–I am a big fan of Word on Fire and Fr. Barron. u00a0I just wrote a blog myself this past weekend about his new Catholicism Project: http://www.calltoholiness.us/?p=148u00a0