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First Catholic Carnival

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Jay, from "Living Catholicism", has answered my call for a Catholic Carnival. 🙂

Basically, this is a Catholic-oriented version of the Christian Carnival (example here) that occurs weekly. It’s a great way to attract new readers to your blog – – and you’re likely to discover some Catholic blogs you haven’t heard about.

[T]he carnival will be a roundup of Catholic posts from the last seven days. You submit your favorite post (along with the info below) and you’ll be included (as long as the post subject is of a Catholic nature). It’s a great way to find new readers. I also ask that you consider hosting the Catholic Carnival one week on your blog – it’s work, but rewarding work. 😉

Those that would like to participate, email the following to jay@LivingCatholicism.com:

Site Name
Site URL
Post Name (posted between 10/19 and 10/25)
Post URL (Permalink)
Post description

Please get it to me by 10 PM EST on Monday evening – I’ll post the Carnival on Tuesday. I’ll send out an email with a link when the Carnival is up. Let your friends know as well.

God bless,
Jay

 

Catholic Carnival, Where Art Thou?

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Why is there no Catholic carnival? Jollyblogger, a nice guy and a good
blogger, is organizing a Carnival of the Reformation. We need a
Carnival of the Counter-reformation! I don’t mean that in a spiteful
“me too” way. Carnivals are an excellent way to share ideas and promote
blogs.

From what I’ve seen in the blogosphere, the Protestants are beating the
pants off us. We’re fewer in number. We spend more time knocking each
other or the Church than defending the Faith. We are barely computer
literate, and in some cases borderline luddite. Where has “the new
evangelization” JP2 called for gone? Apparently not very far.

Conversations on the Catechism: “I Believe” – “We Believe”

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"There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church, which is, of course, quite a different thing." – Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

A recent post by Jollyblogger got me thinking. He’s trying to start a League of Reformed Bloggers with an eventual Carnival of the Reformed. I’ve seen a few "merely" Christian and Protestant carnivals. I haven’t seen any Catholic carnivals. Does anyone know of one? Maybe someone within St. Blog’s could organize one (I wouldn’t have a clue where to start.).

Anyhow, I’d like get people to discuss the broader issues of Catholicism (as opposed to gluten-free wafers). In particular, I’d like to invite my Protestant readers to read the Catechism of the Catholic Church. To those ends, I’m going to write posts that highlight sections of the Catechism. This will be the first.

I invite all of my Christian readers to read Part One, Section One: "I Believe" – "We Believe" (paragraphs 26 through 184). What statements do you agree with? What parts would you disagree with? Why?