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Some neat new Catholic sites

By Sean | February 3, 2008

One of the things nobody tells you about podcasting, is that once you have a podcast and figure out how to produce a podcast, you start having a gajillion ideas for other podcasts and the temptation becomes very great to eat into your time and start up new podcasts. About a month ago I had an idea for “Body, Mind and Soul”, a fitness podcast for Catholics who wish to get in shape, learn more, and enrich their spiritual lives. Independently and unbeknownst to me, Scott and Christine Maentz started up a daily audio and video cast on ustream called The Sweatcast where they invite viewers to join them as they do their daily workout, share a few jokes, play great podsafe rock and blues music, play a podcast about the Saint of the Day, and interact with their ustream audience. It’s alot of fun and it’s helping me to keep on with my fairly new fitness classes. It’s also great that they they are filling the niche for a Catholic flavored fitness program.

A couple of days ago, I got an email from the editor of The Alexandrian, a new Canadian, peer-reviewed, Catholic academic journal on the internet. Apparently, she enjoys this blog, even if it is rarely updated, and had linked to on their blog. I’m happy to return the favor.

Topics: Catholic Blogs, Catholic Podcasts |

2 Responses to “Some neat new Catholic sites”

  1. Scott Maentz Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 5:26 am

    Thanks for the plug for the SweatCast, Sean. While our Catholic content is rather light right now, I believe we’ll be incorporating a bit more into the show over the next few weeks. Christine reads many books and we may start a weekly Catholic book review segment.

    The most important goal for the show is to encourage people to START exercising and to commit to doing so for the rest of their lives. We’ll also be learning more and talking about the science of exercise and why it’s so important for good health, especially in the last third of our lives.

    Finally, we plan to incorporate a strength training program into the show. We’ll each be working the weight machine twice a week, starting from scratch. This will be a good way for people who have been away from the gym for many years to get back and ease into it with us.

  2. Catherine Says:
    February 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am

    Thanks for the link! Sorry I didn’t notice earlier; I have a bad habit of leaving sites for days and then reading the recent posts all at once. (I probably get it from reading back issues of magazines.)

    I think your Lenten posts are great, by the way. It’s nice to have these introductions to other aspects of Catholic culture in media.

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