First, I want to thank God for all the blessings He pours into my life every day and ask Our Blessed Mother and all the Saints and Angels for their intercession on behalf of this project and ask The Holy Spirit for guidance, inspiration, wisdom and perseverance in carrying it out.
I am building this site because I wanted a site like this and I couldn’t find one. There are some other Catholic “portal” sites out there but none of them are exactly what I want so I have been resorting to a system of lists and links and bookmarks to keep myself informed about what is happening in the Church and what people are saying about it. This “system” has become absurdly unwieldy. I keep missing things and losing track of things. Recently it has finally dawned on me that perhaps the time has come to put something together myself.
I wish I could be a Catholic blogger… I have such admiration and respect for the amazing priests, seminarians, religious and lay people who write so eloquently and incisively (and consistently!) about our Church. It would be so cool to have a blog and write every day about the richness of the Catholic experience and the events in the Church. But I have been forced to admit that not only do I not have much to say, I don’t even have the skills to say anything intelligibly.
But I do have some skills as a webmaster! So perhaps I can make a contribution after all. If I cannot create the messages, at least I can try to find them and bring them all together in one place to make it easy and convenient for people to enjoy and benefit from them. I hope this site can be an example of how God uses our weakness (my lack of knowledge and writing ability) to demonstrate His strength (a stronger Catholic presence on the Internet.)
My vision for this site is to have a column down the middle with blurbs and links to (what I consider to be) the best and most recent Catholic blog posts and news items on the net. This will be set up so none of it will “age out” or disappear after a few days. You will always be able to come back to find something you liked and wanted to read again, or to read through everything that happened while you were on vacation or search the site for your topic of interest. The problem I have with other Catholic portals of material disappearing so quickly and so being unable to find it again has had me tearing my hair out. If solving this problem is the only thing I accomplish with this site then I will consider it a success.
I also plan to have columns of links on the sides to (what I consider to be) the best websites offering Catholic blogs, news, resources, media and so on. As I mentioned, I want this to be the site that I was hoping was already out there: a place where I could find everything Catholic in one place. I am going to work to bring together links to all the most useful, trustworthy, informative and exciting Catholic writing and media on the Internet.
This site won’t be for everyone. After all, I am creating my ideal Catholic portal so it is going to have some characteristics peculiar to me. For example, I am a Traditional Catholic so you won’t find links to anything advocating the ordination of women. And I am an American, and a very conservative and patriotic American at that, so you won’t find links to anything advocating the breaking of American laws or undermining western values.
Also, I have a sense of humor and sometimes I just cannot resist expressing it. So let’s get this started off right with one of the funniest videos I have ever seen:
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