Catholic Organization For Life And Family: Building A Civilization Of Love Website Analysis
The “Catholic Organization for Life and Family: Building a Civilization of Love website (hereafter referred to as COLF) is operated by three persons: Michel G. MacDonald, Peter D. Murphy and Christine Shepherd. The administrators of this site are all highly educated persons, notably Dr. MacDonald and Mr. Murphy, whose post-secondary studies focused on the theology of the Catholic Church. Mrs. Shepherd’s experience working with Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops supports the administrative team with valuable practical knowledge and the ability to market the ideas and materials presented on this site.
COLF’s mission is to provide lay people with working tools they can use to understand the Catholic Church’s teachings on key modern social …show more content…
The menus provide multiple links for further reading, allowing people to gather and read information easily. Once accessed, an individual can narrow their chosen webpage to access the materials they want to learn, allowing for a more efficient website. These features are further exhibited in the utility of the website; the search function can take keywords, such as “death” and provides materials connected to the keyword. I believe that this feature offers an opportunity for academics and laypeople to easy compile information about Canadian Catholic Church’s opinions about controversial developments (i.e. Bill C-34). The last of the strengths found on COLF is in the variety of materials presented on the website. Unlike other sites promoting the Catholic perspective on life and family, which provide a single type of article, COLF delivers documents of a more personal nature, such as testimonials or workshops in addition to statements from the Universal and Canadian Church’s teaching on current social issues. While COLF has many strengths, the nature of the site’s materials (i.e. comments from the Church) limits how many updates it can make. On some of the webpages, the last update was two years ago making the information outdated compared to the development of society’s social
COLF’s mission is to provide lay people with working tools they can use to understand the Catholic Church’s teachings on key modern social …show more content…
The menus provide multiple links for further reading, allowing people to gather and read information easily. Once accessed, an individual can narrow their chosen webpage to access the materials they want to learn, allowing for a more efficient website. These features are further exhibited in the utility of the website; the search function can take keywords, such as “death” and provides materials connected to the keyword. I believe that this feature offers an opportunity for academics and laypeople to easy compile information about Canadian Catholic Church’s opinions about controversial developments (i.e. Bill C-34). The last of the strengths found on COLF is in the variety of materials presented on the website. Unlike other sites promoting the Catholic perspective on life and family, which provide a single type of article, COLF delivers documents of a more personal nature, such as testimonials or workshops in addition to statements from the Universal and Canadian Church’s teaching on current social issues. While COLF has many strengths, the nature of the site’s materials (i.e. comments from the Church) limits how many updates it can make. On some of the webpages, the last update was two years ago making the information outdated compared to the development of society’s social