Catholic schools, Catholic press set up post-hurricane info blogs

Published: 2005-09-06

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- To help hurricane-displaced Catholic students and teachers, the National Catholic Educational Association has set up Web logs -- in essence, Internet hot lines -- to help displaced families find openings in Catholic schools, link displaced Catholic teachers with possible jobs elsewhere and inform families when schools closed because of Hurricane Katrina will reopen. In a similar vein the Catholic Press Association has created a Web log, called a blog in Internet parlance, to assist editors of Catholic newspapers affected by Katrina. The NCEA Web sites are http://ncea.catholic.org/phpbb and http://ncea.catholic.org/katrina. Catholic Online, an Internet site of Catholic news and opinion, helped the NCEA create the blogs and has links to them at the top of its own home page, www.catholiconline.org. Catholic Online, working with the Catholic Press Association's board of directors, also set up a blog for internal discussion among Catholic editors for advice, assistance offers or other discussion about the aftermath of Katrina and how to help the people and the Catholic editors affected by the storm and floods. That site, http://press.catholic.org, is also accessible from Catholic Online's home page.

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