Showing posts with label new media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new media. Show all posts

Monday, 17 May 2010

Fr Ignatius - an E-book . . .

I hope from time to time some people pop into some of the blogs listed in my sidebar. That, I think, is one of the main purposes of listing other blogs.

If you've ever visited Victor's blog, Time for Reflections you'll be familiar with Fr Ignatius. This fictitious parish priest, a creation of Victor's, is a gentle, wise and often humorous priest. He has a starring role on Victor's blog and his escapades are followed by many.

Recently Victor has published a collection of stories taken from his blog in the form of an E-book. It's free to download and you can do so here. These brief and gentle stories are very easy to read but always have an underlying message or sometimes relate to Church teaching. If you haven't yet made Fr Ignatius' acquaintance why not pop over and say hello.

Wednesday, 12 May 2010

The Vatican goes 'techy' . . .

This item on EWTN News caught my eye this morning.

"New Fibre Optic Communications Infrastructure in Vatican

VATICAN CITY, 11 MAY 2010 (VIS) - The Governorate of Vatican City State and Telecom Italia have announced the signing of a contract for the installation of the first nucleus of the "Integrated Communication Infrastructure for Vatican City State". This consists in a broadband IP network capable of voice, data and video transmission within the territory of the Holy See and Vatican City State, according to a communique published today.

The plan includes, among other things, fibre optic cable links between the ten main extraterritorial sites including the Pontifical Villas at Castelgandolfo and the radio stations in Santa Maria de Galeria."

It's when I see news items like this that I really wish I had a gift for drawing cartoons. I can see some wonderful images in my mind's eye of the Holy Father with his iPad on his knee checking out his YouTube channel! (No disrespect intended Your Holiness!)

We're having a lot of trouble with our broadband at home at the moment which is excruciatingly slow at times. I wonder if I should get 'our people ' to talk to 'their people'. LOL