The Journey of a Bishop

One of my daily stops in the blogosphere is Archbishop Terry Prendergast's The Journey of a Bishop blog. Here's a link to a little story I wrote about the blogging bishop published by the Western Catholic Reporter. An excerpt:

Prendergast began his blog last April. He had been talking about setting up a blog with his youth director Ted Hurley.

"He said, 'I've set up a site for you," Prendergast said. "Would you like to try it?' So I said, Okay."

But the blog sat there for a couple of weeks until Good Friday. Since then, he's posted virtually every day on an eclectic range of subjects.

Hurley said he chose Blogspot as a blogging platform because it's user friendly and not very technical. How has the archbishop taken to blogging? "Sort of like a fish in water," Hurley said. "He loves sharing the journey that he's on."

For a few weeks, the blog contained text only, but the archbishop has since been displaying not only his own digital photos, but also pictures of great religious art and icons to match his various subjects. He has included travel photos and observations, such as his trip to France in July to ordain some priests at a Trappist monastery there.

The blog also provides a snapshot of a busy but joyous life among the faithful in the diocese, with many photos of the archbishop among his flock at various parishes throughout the large, bilingual diocese.