Broadcast to podcast to Godcast: Streaming faith to Catholic ears
By Mark Pattison
9/27/2006

Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear podcasts.

That seems to be today’s adaptation of Jesus’ familiar exhortation.

Podcasts are recordings that are prepared with actual radio broadcast material with one pair of ears in mind rather than a mass audience. The new venues are computers and iPods, the wildly popular personal music storage system. The term podcasting is derived from the iPod name.

For one online Christian podcast directory, the most popular podcasts by far are by a Catholic priest, the late Father Al Lauer. Before he died four years ago, he had made a number of recordings – before podcasts became all the rage. [More…]

Tags: Podcast, Podcasting, Godcasting, Catholic Media, Article, Godcast 1000 | No Comments »