St. Luke’s is a Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Seattle. Located in Shoreline, Washington, we serve over 1,200 families and educate 350+ students in our school.

The purpose of this blog is to faciliate dialogue between us and about us and, as Pope Benedict has said, “to bring the witness of [our] faith to the digital world.”

Besides announcements, homilies, articles of interest, and other regular postings on this blog, we invite you to share stories of your Catholic experiences and traditions. We will use the Holy Father’s explanation of ‘cyberspace and dialogue’ as the foundation for what can be posted on our blog:

…The new technologies have also opened the way for dialogue between people from different countries, cultures and religions. The new digital arena, the so-called cyberspace, allows them to encounter and to know each other’s traditions and values. Such encounters, if they are to be fruitful, require honest and appropriate forms of expression together with attentive and respectful listening. The dialogue must be rooted in a genuine and mutual searching for truth if it is to realize its potential to promote growth in understanding and tolerance…

You may want to read an earlier post on our blog which has links to the Vatican’s 43rd World Communications Day theme of “New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship.”

Additionally, we operate all of our social media tools, including this blog, following the pastoral and sacramental guidelines set forth by the Archbishop of Seattle, specifically in the Electronic Communications document. We would like to bring your attention to two specific paragraphs (we consider “websites” to also mean blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and all electronic communication tools):

EC 16. Websites are to be accurate, up to date, and reflect official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

EC 20. Hyperlinks within the Website are to be keeping with official Catholic Church teachings and the acceptable use policies of individual parishes, schools, and faith communities (which are to include age-appropriate principles).

If you would like to submit a blog post, please email it to Communications@StLukecp.com. Include your name and contact information. (We will not post articles from anonymous sources.)

Our blog is managed by volunteers who do not have theological backgrounds. So if your submission appears to fall outside of the Pope’s teachings, the guidelines of the Archbishop, or the vision of St. Luke Parish, the volunteers will opt not to post it. If something is posted and it is later brought to our attention that it should not have been, it will be removed. Respect, dialogue, and friendship. That is our first ruler for content. Please keep it in mind when submitting your posts.