Kids, prepare thyselves for ‘Godcasts’ It seems like everyone is podcasting these days. Six months ago, Paris Hilton’s recording one merited mention. Nowadays, it’s hard to find someone who’s not doing it. And that includes the religiously minded. GodPods.com will get your minister up and running for $20 a month. Now, the Carmelite nuns are getting into the act. Starting Monday, the Sisters, who mind you are cloistered in their Indianapolis convent, are hitting iTunes with what their ad agency, Young & Laramore, is calling “Godcasts.” (The Carmelites have an ad agency. God help us all.) They’ll explore issues like what it’s like to live a contemplative life and engage in their trademark media criticism. As a Y&L rep helpfully puts it, “The voices of the Carmelites would otherwise by extremely difficult to come by, as their cloistered lifestyle prevents them from leaving the convent.” Steve Jobs truly is doing the Lord’s work. —Posted by Brian Morrissey

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I did a nine month undergrad internship with Y&L and fell in love with that place. They do incredible work and the Pray the News campaign is three years old now and has been quite successful at recruiting new nuns.

Posted by: Chris | Oct 30, 2006 2:07:31 PM

Religious podcasts - especially Catholic ones - have been around for a while now. They're very effective in helpful people live their faith, and are even winning awards over secular podcasts in competitions.

Posted by: | Oct 30, 2006 2:47:52 PM

cloistered in Indianapolis?

hmmmm. What they do for the feast day of the iPod? ... on the 24th....I stayed in for dinner with the first generation iPod ~gazing into the lighted screen.

Posted by: nancy | Oct 31, 2006 7:13:20 AM

funny thing...

i usually just type adw in my address field to get to this site. One day, I don't know how it happened~

Of course i do, I misclikced, mistyped.

Anyway, instead of my computer memory pulling up the entire url of this site, it jumped to adw.org and i landed at the Archdiocese of Washington. Cryptic connections?

Posted by: nancy | Oct 31, 2006 7:36:26 AM

Chris,

////sorry, to be doing this in three parts////

But in the interest of Catholic nuns who have a different ministry and order in Indiana. These are the one who are in tune with nature, too.

The sisters of St Francis/Oldenburg-

Sweet Leave Stevia! :)

Posted by: nancy | Oct 31, 2006 8:02:42 AM

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