06.29.07
Create a Catholic Window on the World
Catholic Windows on the World
A blog that seeks to propagate the Catholic presence on
the Net by linking Catholic sites and blogs in an expanding
and progressive network.
The story of Catholic Internet Mission
The Catholic Internet Mission or (CIM) web site was not
really planned. What was originally intended was to create
a Yahoo! list with Catholic members. However, social
interactivity on the Net and in the physical world led to
the list’s growth to include web logs, web rings, and a
web site - all of which are on free accounts.
Growth of the network through John Paul’s spirit
Even though the CIM web site was not planned, there was
however a driving spirit behind the founding of everything
within the CIM network. That driving spirit was the
encouraging words of John Paul II in his many documents
on the internet. Through John Paul II’s spirituality
of mission and holiness, this spirit was translated and
concretized through the CIM web site and its network -
eventually naming it informally a “webnetwork” - a
mishmash of web pages all centralized through Catholic
Internet Mission.
Learning the ropes; standardization
Through SEO standardization, the CIM web site was able to
enter into the mainstream of the internet. Being in the
mainstream of the internet is not easy as traffic and
visitor flow to the web site is as “volatile” as the
stock market! The only stable element that kept the
CIM web site afloat was its vision and non-profit motive
to love God, the Church, and the Catholic faith in which
many people put their trust, their confidence, their
very lives on. If we were working for just the money
alone then our CIM web site and the network in which
it is contextualized would have folded up easily. So,
despite the ups and downs of visitor traffic, sticking
to our vision and mission and keeping to our “knitting”,
helped a lot to withstand the highly competitive and
fast upgrading pressures of the internet world.
We need your help and support
Ours is a growing, developing, and progressing network.
However, we also need your support and your help. The
help and support that you can give is to simply join
our mission and our network: get a Yahoo! Web Hosting
account through us, and build with us “Catholic Windows
on the World” - which will all help evangelize peoples
of all cultures on the Net - peoples who may have not
have had the opportunity to initially encounter the
Catholic message in the internet medium. Your modest
and humble support is already very vital and important
to us - as we also are a modest and humble Catholic
enterprising mission comprised of extended Catholic
family members.
