Nice Article on Diocese of Houma Thibodaux Blessing of the Shrimp Fleet ( Plus I Rant )

 

The May edition of the Newspaper of the Diocese of Houma Thibodaux is out and is very enjoyable.

I wanted to highlight the article that is on their cover. That is the annual Blessing of the Shrimp fleet. That starts on page 49. It talks about the tradition of this event , and is a good read.

Time for a mini charitable  rant. Though  this online format that this newspaper is in seems now to be all the rage among Catholic newspapers, I wish they would give us another option. I do realize time and money is a factor here. However I come accross so many good articles in Catholic Newspapers that I can't easily copy and past to other social media , and can't link.

There are many good things happening in the Church , and I think its important American Catholics realize what is happening in other Dioceses. Most of that information can be found in some very good Catholic newspapers. The problem is as seen above it's not made very easy to spread that news via the internet.

UPDATE- Just so happens the Archdiocese of Atlanta's newspaper sort of proves my point today. Out of a Georgia Bulletin Story, An Adoption . That original story they mention got some play nationwide. Thus a good thing happening in one Diocese might take hold in another. This is partly because the Atlanta Catholic newspaper is in format that is easier to spead via social media!!