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Paul, evolution, summer movies and elections

While the summer provides a much needed break for many, it also serves as a chance to prepare for resources for your parish community.

The special jubilee year dedicated to St. Paul, which began last month and runs until June 29, 2009, marks the 2,000th anniversary of the saint's birth. Our "Year of St. Paul" feature offers coverage of the activities and celebrations planned in honor of the Pauline year.

The "Portrait of Paul" segment, focusing on on the saint and the jubilee year, is one of the features on American Catholic Radio. Post a link on your site to FranciscanRadio.org, home of other Catholic audio features including Saint of the Day and Sunday Soundbites.

Link to our new "The Church, Evolution and Creation" news feature to provide your site's visitors with information about Church teaching on evolution creation and intelligent design as the world prepares to observe the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his Origins of the Species.

The 2008 year in politics continues to heat up. Help your site's visitors understand how the Catholic faith informs key themes in our national political debate by linking to our "Election 2008."

Get the Catholic scoop on the latest summer movies to hit the screens with CatholicMovieReviews.org. Your visitors will find reviews from St. Anthony Messenger, Every Day Catholic and Catholic News Service.

Minute Meditations and Saint of the Day bring inspiration and information in the midst of many people's busy days.

For returning Catholics, be sure to add a link to our Web site OnceCatholic.org: a Catholic site for seekers. You can list your own parish program in the help room at OnceCatholic.org.

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Great Church Websites

The founder of this valuable Web resource has reviewed thousands of sites associated Catholic, Protestant and nondenominational churches and has compiled a list of “the very best.” Learn good Web site design through these examples as well as design tips (things you should and shouldn’t do). Also, take time to browse the forum for webmasters (a great place for site makeover advice from the GreatChurchWebsites.org president). Also, learn the importance of making sites accessible and how to improve your existing church site so that it is more user friendly for visitors with vision, motion or hearing impairment.

Today's "Areopagus"

At the beginning of the Church’s “Year of St. Paul,” (which started last weekend, commemorating the 2000^th anniversary of his birth) here’s a thought: What will my parish do to reach out more effectively on the Web in the coming year, the parish program year that will start as summer ends? Now is the time to be making plans—there’s time to get ready!

St. Anthony Messenger is committed to helping parishes figure out better how to use the Internet—we see the broad use of the Web as one of the “signs of the times” that recent popes, back to Pope John 23^rd, in the 1960's have reminded us to tune into. Our beloved late Pope John Paul II really understood this, calling modern communications the “areopagus” of modern times. That was a reference to St. Paul preaching the Greek philosophers in the Areopagus in Athens (see Acts 17). What will our Catholic parishes say to the world, that is now finding us in new and very immediate ways via the Web?

Better yet, what would St. Paul do?--JF

Pope John Paul II's apostolic letter letter on the Internet: The Rapid Development