Why does a parish Church need a worldwide website?
Ans: When I was a teenager, one of my beloved pastors told me that one possible reason that Our Lord appeared on this earth when He did (to the extent that we dare to probe into the Mind of the Almighty) is that the Roman Empire had the best worldwide communication, up to that time or since, with the exception of now. The fact that Saint Paul could commute between Jerusalem and Rome in a few weeks, and could communicate with congregations in Latin or Greek all along the way, was pretty amazing in those days. My pastor could not have foreseen the Internet. The Appian Way is replaced by the information superhighway; Latin is replaced by English; clay tablets are replaced by keyboards; and the Roman alphabet is still here! The Internet is alive with chat rooms on every religious topic that you could imagine. If Jesus were alive today, I’ll bet that He would have a home page on the web. Parish churches are the foot-soldiers of Christianity. Every parish church with a serious mission in the
