Seems Like a Good Idea

Reader Dan Roach writes:

I’ve enjoyed your material for quite some time. Thanks for your efforts in spreading the word about Catholicism.

My wife and I recently launched a quite large Catholic website that we have been developing for a number of years. It is called Our Catholic Neighborhood.

I hope you will take some time to browse thought it in the near future. This past weekend a letter describing the OCN website was included as an insert in the Sunday bulletins at our three Walla Walla parishes. (We live in Walla Walla, Washington.)

Today we featured your podcast website as the favorite link on our homepage. Your website and your blog are both linked to the OCN website under “Media” in the Our Catholic Faith area of the OCN website. This will get you there.

We have told all of the active and retired U.S. Catholic bishops, archbishops and cardinals, as well as many of the pastors in the Pacific Northwest about the OCN website and are now beginning to tell the 66,000,000 “Catholics in the pews” about OCN’s launch on the Internet. The OCN website has been viewed by thousands of people throughout all the states (except one) and throughout fifty-five countries. It’s gratifying to see that, in just a few short months, without any notification yet to the press and without having informed the search engines about our existence (though they have found us), hundreds of hours have been spent browsing the Catholic content that we have provided. There have been over fifty thousand pages viewed since we launched. We look forward to a lot more traffic to the OCN website as word continues to get out about it.

To give you an idea of what the 20,000 OCN parish webpages (or the 7,500 OCN Catholic schools webpages) that we have created have the potential to look like as time goes on, please take a look at the OCN webpage for our home parish, St. Patrick’s in Walla Walla.

Again, thanks for all that you do for the Church. We will again feature your website on the OCN homepage from time to time.

My prayers are with you. Please keep us and our endeavor in your prayers.

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