I may be the Guide to Catholicism for About.com, but the Catholicism GuideSite is a resource for you, the readers, rather than for me.
Today, I'm asking you to let me know what you'd like to see more of. (Next week, I'll ask you what you'd like to see less of.) This poll allows you to choose multiple items—you can check as few as one box or as many as ten. But please choose only those that you're most interested in—if everyone checks all ten boxes, the poll results won't be as useful.
The ten items that I've listed here are all things that I intend to do more of over the next several months. But your answers will help me set some priorities.
So start clicking away! And thank you in advance for your help in making the About.com GuideSite to Catholicism an even better resource for your fellow Catholics!
A topic on the rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary enumerated only 3 mysteries, the Joyful, Sorrowful, and the Glorious.
Why was the Luminous excluded? 10/02/09
The topic of more basic instruction of the Catholic faith always seems to be the most requested. I think it all stems from the Catholic Church not instructing us more with a Bible study. It’s kind of embarrassing to me when people from other religions seem to know more about the bible thru their faiths studies than I do and I attended a Catholic school.
Eugenio, when Pope John Paul II introduced the Luminous mysteries, he noted that they were optional. In first creating the Rosary page, I included the three traditional sets of mysteries and left the optional ones out. I intend to create a specific page for the Luminous mysteries, explaining their history, and then I will link from the Rosary page to that page.
Ann, I agree completely that Catholics should read and study the Bible much more than we often do. However, Bible study by itself isn’t the answer to the question of basic instruction in the Faith. Indeed, without proper catechesis, Bible study can cause more confusion rather than less—especially when those conducting the Bible study were not properly catechized themselves.