I think that the “The Best in Catholic Blogging” clutters up the news feed as it is often half of the stories listed. I’m not sure what a better way to do it is, but I find it annoying :)

I subscribe by RSS, and posts frequently show up several times in a row, or pop up again several days after publication.  Every now and then, 40 previous articles show up as new posts.  It’s not that hard to mark all as read, but it’s certainly not ideal.

I subscribe by RSS. I echo the earlier comment by Leah about the same post showing up multiple time in the feed. Also, I wish you would allow the full article to show in the feed instead of a snippet.

A mobile site would be fantastic.  Especially one that detects that you’re connecting from a mobile device.

In sum, what Rose said, which echoes what Leah said.  I do tire of the same article show up in my feed over and over, and the occasional 50 previous articles showing up.

But more importantly, it is frustrating to have to pull up the entire NCREGISTER.COM site to read an entire article when I’ve read the snippet in the RSS feed.  It’s quite slow on a mobile device given the amount of flash and javascript that the local browser has to download and parse.

Hi Tom,
I would like to see more articles on how to build up the Church.  This should be an ongoing theme for the NCRegister.  One of the very best opportunities to do this is the promotion of the correct celebration of the Octave of Easter/Sunday of Divine Mercy, but this has to be done in a timely fashion.  Too many times, publications such as your own, do not want to publish any articles about preparing our parishes to correctly celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday until just days prior.  They have no idea that it takes time for pastors to prepare ahead of time.
Divine Mercy Sunday correctly celebrated has the ability to completely rebuild the Church in a short amount of time and prevent the closing of any parishes.  One would think that a publication would benefit from this because, as the Church grows, the publication will grow, and vice versa.

The biggest world event this year will be the Beatification of Pope John Paul II on Divine Mercy Sunday.  One would think that a publication would want to prepare every parish for this special event, with a great move towards re-evangelizing the Easter-only and fallen-away Catholics, urging them back to Church and the practice of their faith for Mercy Sunday.

It is time to switch gears and take Divine Mercy Sunday to the next level.  No longer should we be treating it as some type of “party for devotees”.  The Feast of Mercy is especially a “refuge for poor sinners” as Jesus said it was.  It is the greatest evangelization tool that we have ever had.  Let’s start right now and make Jesus happy by urging parishes to do everything that they possibly can to get every Easter-only and fallen-away Catholic back to the practice of their faith on Divine Mercy Sunday.  For ideas and direction go to: http://www.DivineMercySunday.com .

I am a paper subscriber and I post here at the blogs.

I can’t tell you how many times I have used information in the Register to help my family, to help me grow in the faith, and to defend and explain the faith in the outside world.

Mulling over ideas or discussing them with people here helps to prepare me for elsewhere.

As for the Best of Catholic Blogging, I like it how it is. It’s a great new edition, and I always find something in it to read.

I enjoy the articles especially ones that deal with current issues in the framework of Catholic Teaching and I like to comment and see what others think.  You might include a lesson of the week item that addreseses our faith and what we believe.  Lots of people have been brainwashed in political correctness and need to be reminded of such things as the difference between license and freedom, tolerance and permissiveness etc.  Keep up the good work.

ads that flash like the NYNET.net add really turns me off
and distracts me
so that I wiz thru the top of the article to scroll down until it is no longer fashing in my face
at least but a stop botton for readers to push

I agree with Kyle.  I do not like the blogging.  Is this a NEWSpaper or a social site?  Trying to do both, does neither well.  I suggest putting the blogging off to another site dedicated to social discussion as liseux wants.  Please get back to being a newspaer.  If you don’t, someone will probably develop one to fill the void.

You’re being a bit rough, there, Colleen. Also, I notice that you are expressing your opinion in a blog setting….

Present day media can include an entity which is both a newspaper and a blog site. Blogging is one way to keep up-to-date with information. Along with interation, blogging provides information.

When you say “social site” most people would think of Face Book or MySpace.

I only get my newspaper every two weeks. Much happens in that space of time, and the blogs help to fill the void.

Colleen and Kyle - just curiuos, how old are you? Nothing implied by the question, just curious.