Catholicism on the Web (On the Web Series) [Paperback]

Thomas C. Fox (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1996 | Series: On the Web Series

This guide contains a listing of the 500 most significant Catholic sites on the Internet, including Web pages, mailing lists, ftp sites and newsgroups covering a wide spectrum of Catholic beliefs and issues. Each site listing is briefly summarized and evaluated, and technical information on the software required is included. The purpose of this book is to help Internet users interested in Catholic sites to find exactly what they are looking for. There is an enormous amount of information on Catholicism to be found on the Internet and search engines are not always very helpful in finding the desired sites, so this book applies human intelligence to the whole process.

Product Details

• Paperback: 468 pages
• Publisher: Mis Pr; 1st edition (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558285164
• ISBN-13: 978-1558285163
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,784,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very outdated, but still useful, April 24, 1999

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This review is from: Catholicism on the Web (On the Web Series) (Paperback)

As I should have know from the 1996 publication date, the web addresses included are quite out of date. Well over half of the web sites included that I've tried no longer exist. However, as another reviewer noted, the brief articles give you enough information to use search engines to come up with similar, or even more useful, sites. One particular aggravation: The publishers include their own site where "links to all the sites listed in this book can be accessed." Guess what? Not only does the citation contain an obvious misprint, but the site no longer exists!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource from a leading Catholic journalist., July 27, 1998

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This review is from: Catholicism on the Web (On the Web Series) (Paperback)

As webmaster for American Catholic Online for St. Anthony Messnger Press, I'm always looking for good resources on Catholicism on the Web. No one has yet matched Tom Fox's compilation of sites and commentary. His selection is broad, but more important, he brings his years of experience as a leading Catholic journalist to the fore as he describes who is behind the Web sites and what they are up to. The only pity is that it is a print product. As such, the links began to be outdated even as the book was printed. But with Fox's book in hand you can use the search engines to track down outdated links.--John Bookser Feister, Editor, American Catholic Online

5.0 out of 5 stars If you research on religion this book is "basic"get it now!, April 14, 1998

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This review is from: Catholicism on the Web (On the Web Series) (Paperback)

I am a Deacon in the RC church and I use this text to research subjects that expand the daily readings of the liturgy into daily life. I find it just wonderful. Many new ideas are found especially of matters of "social justice." jvk 1998