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Hi Heriberto,
Seeing that there are so many needs even just locally, I would encourage you to develop a local group of like-minded Catholics who have the same interest you do: Catholic Apologetics.
I would encourage you and your team
to:
Share your strong interests with your pastor in
service to the Church and your local parish.
As I said in another answer:
My vision is a little different then yours. I would
like to bring together teams of practicing Catholics
who are:
The goal would be to create other websites across
the United States similar to ours that are loyal
to the Holy Father and Church's Magisterium.
From my view this would require several things:
- a close-knit, prayerful group
of Catholics loyal to the Holy Father and
Church's Magisterium
- with an ability to work together as a team
- who can take constructive criticism and
correction if needed
- who have a solid knowledge of the
Church's teachings
- who can answer questions about "What
the Church teaches" in a mature, charitable manner,
and
- who have at least one person who knows
how to develop and maintain
knowledge base-type websites.
Hopefully, visitors
see these attributes in our team, most, if not, all
of the time.
If any cardinal
or bishop of a diocese was interested in this approach,
he could develop a training program for what I call CICAs: Catholic
Internet Catechist and Apologists. |
We started our group inspired by Scott Hahn and we all developed a strong interest for Apologetics — a term we had never heard of in CCD. With the Director of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Boston, we met for months on a plan to bring Catholic Apologetics to the local CCD parish level. When things didn't work out we received funding to go to radio for a while on WROL. When that funding dried up, we started our own personal group: C-PATS.
Again, in order to do this work in the long run, you would
need to find similar Catholics, with a strong prayer
life, who are faithful to the Church's Teachings
with a strong interest in Catholic Apologetics.
One of them would have to know how do develop and
maintain web sites. This person would be responsible for tasks like:
- setting up the website component where the questioner/faith-seeker could ask a question.
- setting up the website component where each Catholic apologist would receive the question and REPLY ALL (with their answer), so any continuing dialogue would be shared by everyone including the questioner.
- Ultimately, the web person would also have to be in charge of ensuring that:
- all posted/published questions are clearly understandable, and
- all posted/published answers have a unifying answer (no matter how many replies there are) that is faithful to the Church, and
- have an open mind to their own answer being possibly incorrect.
They would also need to show courtesy and patience in answers when there is a "mini-family fight" among team members over what is truly a faithful Catholic answer.
Weather just answering questions or being the main person who, answers questions and maintains the website, all team members would have to be willing to do this work on a volunteer basis, though there would be nothing wrong with finding a Catholic priest in good standing with the Church who also had a good knowledge of Canon Law and would be willing to work with the team, especially if that priest is from their own archdiocese. We would encourage this!
We had such a canon law priest for a few years but lost him when Pope Francis elevated him to the role of a bishop.
Mike
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