Top Ten Topics That Will Rock Your Catholic Blog
(cross-posted at Acts Of The Apostasy)
Do you run a Catholic blog, or is it more like a Catholic blahhhhg? Do you wish you had more readers? Is your Sitemeter daily count smaller than Kate Middleton’s waist size, and you wish it would expand (the daily count, not KM’s waist)? Does your combox have more robo-generated spam comments selling shoes and junk than comments left by actual people?
If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then what you need are The Top Ten Topics That Will Rock Your Catholic Blog, as compiled by the AoftheA Editorial Board. The EB scoured Catholic blogs for several hours days weeks months and months to generate a list of hot-button issues that delivered consistent results across the world.
If you want to increase traffic to your blog, and you want the combox conversations spiced up a bit, touch on any of the subjects listed below. You can either be pro or con – doesn’t matter. You don’t even have to write well or display logic – just have an opinion and a thesaurus and a glib turn of phrase or two, and bang! Your daily hits will spike. Your combox will quickly resemble a back alley at midnight deep in gang-contested turf. Yeah, it will get rather testy, but that’s what commenting at Catholic blogs is all about: loving our neighbors – even the Anonymous ones – with ham-fisted charity and bare-knuckled mercy.
The topics are in no particular order, and the Editorial Board at AoftheA has provided a possible point of view or approach* you can take – guaranteed to generate multiple flash mobs dancing around the issues in the combox instantaneously! Good luck!
10. Why the Latin Mass/Novus Ordo is better than the Novus Ordo/Latin Mass.
9. Attire for Mass – shouldn’t folks just be glad no one’s showing up naked?
8. Medjugorje – Real, or is God just joshing?
7. “If I were bishop…my diocese would be whipped into shape in no time!”
6. So-called gay marriage – doesn’t it prove that gays, deep down, really want to be straight?
5. Natural family planning – contraception with a conscience, or a scientific alternative to “Not tonight dear – I’ve got a headache”?
4. The Democratic Party/Republican Party represents the full embodiment of Catholic Social Teaching.
3. If the Church had 4 or 5 more folks like Michael Voris, Satan would throw in the towel and admit defeat.
2. Communion in the hand or communion on the tongue – which way proves you’re the better person?
1. Gregorian Chant sounds stupid – give me “I Am The Bread Of Life” any day!
*DISCLAIMER: Publication of the Top Ten Topics That Will Rock Your Catholic Blog does not imply, infer, or indicate an endorsement by the AoftheA Editorial Board of any of the listed topics’ subject material, in any degree whatsoever. What, you think I want a bunch of crazy people arguing in my combox?
If you think this post is about you…then it probably is.
I’ve found that discussing the self-proclaimed virginity, devout Catholicism, and pro-life views of a certain Victoria’s Secret model can also do wonders for your blog traffic and for spicing up the commentary in your combox … especially if you include a photo of said model in a state of relative undress.
All I have to do is mention Sarah Palin and the comments pour in.
Also Ron Paul or– oddly– “self defense spray” alternatives will bring in automated or apparently so visitors.
That is a hilarious list Larry! Here are three more:
13. Why are so many Catholics afflicted with arthritis when it comes time to throw something in to the collection basket?
12. The sign of peace at Mass, proof of the smoke of Satan entering the Church?
11. Pope Julius II and Pope John Paul II debate war and peace in Heaven.
14. Attachment Parenting, warping your children or proving your a better parent?
15. Women wearing pants, filling Hell with the souls of hapless men or just comfortable clothes women choose to wear?
16. Women wearing skirts, faithful Catholics or scarlet harlots tempting helpless males down the primrose path of lust?
Interesting Catholic traffic boosting suggestions there. That’s why I like to write on provocative and sometimes controversial apologetical issues. See for examples Is the Pope the Antichrist? and Are Catholics Christians?
I have even ventured the gay marriage topic, one of my post with most received hate mails ever is Common Sense of Lesbians and Gays versus Cats and Dogs
What you suggested Larry would indeed work like miracle or is it magic?
Waterboarding.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned it yet. (I guess it’s sort of included in #4…)
17. Women NOT wearing hats or veils at Mass… faithful Catholics who just aren’t into headgear, or rebellious hussies distracting men from their contemplations?
18. Is waterboarding really torture?
19. Bringing fussy infants/toddlers to Mass: intolerable distraction or absolute necessity for insuring children are raised in the Faith? (For the record, I believe it’s neither.)
20. Spinoff of #19: Cry rooms — good idea or bad idea?
Well, Maggie, guess I just did….
Really, anything that deals with modesty — as the numerous ways that it has been formulated thus far displays.
And let’s not forget:
21. How everyone who disagrees with me is a Calvinist/Pelagian/Gnostic/Bi-metalist.
22. Snowflake babies: evil destroyer of the bond between husband and wife, or a moral imperative higher than adopting abused born children?
23. Michael Voris is ordained a bishop and Mark Shea gets to be his altar boy!
Permit me to add one…whether or not the SSPX is in schism. Granted, the Haugen-Haas-St Louis Jesuits fan club won´t care, but the trads will.
RINO hunts.
Pro-life = save the babies vs. feed the hungry
Bad, bad Bishop! (rolling up newspaper)
Corapi, ’nuff said.
Voris, ditto.
Liturgical dance.
“Is this licit?”
Wymynpriests.
OF vs. EF, Bishops opposing EF, &c, &c.
“Extra ecclesiam non salvat”
Looking over the original list, I guess the complaint is that Catholics talk too much about morals, doctrine, and liturgy?
Yes Pinky if by talk you mean argue endlessly and vociferously.
More:
Death penalty. (full stop)
Just war doctrine. (full stop)
The proper formation of general society.
Cats/dogs; PCs/Macs; This/That, which is more Catholic?
Just mention Casey Anthony….
Reductio ad Calvinism – is dividing the world into the good and the Calvinist reasonable or fallacious?
Steven-
maybe “post on current popular outrage, especially if facts are not fully agreed on?” (Anthony trial, “bullying suicides”, etc?)
“Legality vs Morality: shouldn’t they be the same, and a why those who disagree with me are fascists/hypocrites.”
CMR grabbed a live wire here, as did our own Lisa Graas.
# twenty or thirty something….. Islam – the enemy of Catholicism.
Riffing off of Don’s:
“Why all religious people need to put their problems aside and focus on (my pet issue).”
Where does sperm belong?