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¡Bienvenidos! – leveraging Facebook among ethnic communities

From friends at the Captura Group: Hispanic online publishers turn to Facebook to engage Hispanics

In my previous post I challenged marketers to engage with Hispanics through social media. Since that time, many marketers have done just that, but what is most interesting to me is how Hispanic online publishers have suddenly planted flags on Facebook.

According to ComScore Media Metrics, Facebook is now the fourth most popular website among Hispanics and growing. Facebook reaches close to 10.55 million Hispanics per month, nearly 45% of all online Hispanics. This massive Hispanic audience coupled with Facebook’s free social media platform represents the best place to build a community of online Hispanics. Instead of building and maintaining social networks of their own, it seems that Hispanic publishers have figured out that it makes more sense to build communities on Facebook.

Facebook is quickly becoming an important referrer of Internet traffic. By building large, engaged communities on Facebook, Hispanic publishers can generate incremental traffic to their websites which in turn will boost revenues…

…or believers and congregants. One of the greatest areas of growth in the PNCC is among Hispanic believers. They, of course, understand the importance of the gifts they have been given as a community: language, traditions, culture, and way of meeting God. They also see that self determination and control over their parish assets in a democratic church supports the needs of the community. ¡Bienvenidos! i Dios te bendiga.

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Articles from the Polish Culture website

Mark Twain’s Polish Acquaintances

Vienna in 1897 was the vibrant capital city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that comprised more than a dozen nationalities, including Poles. The Empire had taken southern Poland in the 18th century partitions and called it the province of Galicia. Its residents became Austrian citizens and Vienna draw a share of opportunistic Poles. By the end of the 19th century, one in five Viennese was Polish….

Midsummer in Poland

At the end of June, at the time of Summer Solstice, when night is shortest and Nature bursts with blossoms and growth, we celebrate the Holiday of Fire and Water, also called Noc Kupaly, Sobótka or Kres…

The Black Madonna of Derby – Review

“The Black Madonna of Derby” is very readable and enjoyable novel about complexities of the life of a Polish origin family settled in Derby, England…

…plus many other interesting articles. Check out their good work.

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Bishop Ackerman’s shout out to the PNCC

To the PNCC from his address to Forward-in-Faith, from VirtueOnline:

Witnessing the breaking of relationship with the Polish National Catholic Church for many of us a tragedy, because he happen to live in areas where that was a viable ministry between Episcopal parishes and Polish National Catholics The ending of ecumenical relationships, or at least a pause. It didn’t look all that bright…

Of course, not a bright moment, but a sad consequence of becoming less than Catholic.

I fully understand his points, the “stew” issue. That said, there is Catholic and non-Catholic and the PNCC chose Catholic, therefore no deaconesses, priestesses, and other such innovation which is apart from Scripture and Tradition. The stew comes from good ecumenical relation and working to common purpose: making Christ known, peace, the heavenward journey. As Bishop Hodur pointed outSee: Address in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1902 from Bishop Francis Hodur, Sermon Outlines and Occasional Speeches 1899 —“ 1922, (c) 1999 Theodore L. Zawistowski, Polish National Catholic Church, Central Diocese, we raise scandal when we criticize and ignore others who follow Christ. At the same time, we cannot be who we are not.

As my fellow blogger, the Young Fogey, might point out, you must decide who changes whom. Either the Church changes you or you change the Church. One way is Catholic, the other Protestant. Regardless of the selection, we all should stand together in witnessing the charism of the Spirit active in the Church’s many expressions. It does not mean we can abjure Scriptures and Tradition, because they are part of who the PNCC is – its central being. Each must choose their way, and as Bishop Ackerman points out, continue love each other as family without becoming who we are not.

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