Monthly Archives: February 2008

Day 16: A Prime Place for a Pontifical Podcast

Continuing with my internexploration of spiritually significant places, great Catholic podcasts, (and apparently alliteration starting with the letter P), we slide through the intertubes to Vatican City to listen to VATICAN RADIO which broadcasts news of the Catholic Church, Papal audiences, and news and social commentary from a Catholic perspective in over 32 languages. Their [...]

Day 15- Podcasting Priests on Pilgrimage Preach to a Pilgrim People

Now say that title five times quickly. Continuing on my theme of the spiritual importance of place and sacred spaces, today I’m going to highlight just a few podcasts where priests are sharing their pilgrimages through their podcasts. First up is Father Bill Kessler, who hosts the Technopriest and Technochurch podcasts. In November, Father Bill [...]

Day 14- Blog Directories– Join in the Conversation

For several years, whenever I wanted to find new Catholic Blogs, I have turned to Saint Blog’s Parish Directory. Of course there is no Saint Blog, and it is not a real parish. It is however one of the longest running Catholic blog directories on the internet. They also maintain a Webring, RSS Aggregator of [...]

Day 13 of 40 Days of Catholic Resources–The Canadian Martyrs’ Shrine

The other day, I talked with Zina Gomez Liss about the spiritual and cultural significance of places. Zina has been exploring the Catholic heritage of Boston in her videocast, Catholic City with Zina. My town of Midland also has a rich Catholic heritage. Our community is where some of the first Jesuit missionaries to Upper [...]

Day 12 of 40 Days of Catholic Media: Catholic Audiobooks at LibriVox

For a couple of years, I have been a volunteer reader for Librivox.org. Librivox is an online project that has an amazing mission statement: “To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.” Over a 1500 volunteers all over the world have contributed recordings to over 1000 [...]

Day 11 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Join the ipadre in his live recording of his 100th show tomorrow.

Giggling Nuns, teeny tiny railroads, a geek priest who Ustreams his holy hours: the motto of the Ipadre podcast is All Things Catholic and Then Some, and Father Jay Finelli certainly delivers on that promise. He will be recording his 100th episode live on Ustream tomorrow, Sunday February 17 at 5:00 pm EST. Join him [...]

Day 10 of 40 Days of Catholic Media– Catholic City with Zina

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Zina Gomez-Liss has just launched, Catholic City with Zina a wonderful video podcast which explores the Catholic culture and heritage of her hometown Boston. It is done in a lighthearted humorous fashion with loads of pretty graphics and special effects. I spoke to Zina for quite a while about her videocast and the spiritual significance [...]

Day 9: Carnaval is Over But There’s Still a Blog Carnival for Lent

Although Carnaval ends on shrove Tuesday the Catholic blog Carnival continues during lent.  I first discussed blog carnivals in an early post on this blog.   A blog carnival is a way for people of similar interests to join in a conversation about a specific theme.  As I started this blog to explore the intersection [...]

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