The Catholic Internet- and E-Mail-Directory of Southern Africa
(unofficial)
... As mentioned in a previous CyberChurch column, Benedictine Fr Gerard Lagleder has offered to assist in creating websites.
The URL of theis Catholic Internet and Email Directory of Southern Africa has changed. The new address is at http://www.smom-za.org/cidsa/. ...
The Southern Cross, Sunday, November 15, 1998
... In South Africa, Benedictine Father Gérard Lagleder is the cardinal cybercleric. A monk of the Inkamana Abbey in Vryheid, he has compiled a most useful Catholic Internet and email directory of Southern Africa - listing electronic contact details of dioceses, religious orders and congregations. Links to several lay organisations and church institutions are available as well. ( http://www.smom-za.org/cidsa/ )
Fr Lagleder also lists several private email addresses of Catholics in South Africa. He updated his site on New Year's Eve, so the information there is still fresh.
As the website expands in the coming years and the Internet becomes as commonplace as the fax machine today, it will undoubtedly become a resource centre of inestimable value for church communications into the next millennium. ...
The Southern Cross, Sunday, January 25, 1998
In our March 30 issue, we offered advice about how to get on to the Internet, and what to expect. Today, PAT BARTOS takes you on a tour of some of the thousands of Catholic sites on the Net.
... Tom Fox, publisher of the US paper National Catholic Reporter , has jumped headlong into the Internet, spending several years amassing a collection of some 500 of the top sites of Catholic interest on the Internet (which includes, believe it or not, the site of the diocese of Eshowe in KwaZulu-Natal), which he has published in a book (Catholicism on the Web, published by Henry Holt & Co).
Working on the book "helped me better understand the many other ways - the thousand paths - Catholics take to enter and embrace the Church," said Mr Fox. ...
The Southern Cross, Sunday, May 11, 1997, page 8
By Gunther Simmermacher
... The SACBC site complements the unofficial Internet Directory of Catholic email addresses and homepages in Southern Africa ( http://www.smom-za.org/cidsa/ ) set up by Eshowe priest Fr Gerard Tonque Lagleder.
Local Catholic internet sites include homepages by the Salesians, Franciscans, Missionaries of Charity, Mangete and Mandeni parishes, CBC Kimberley, the archdiocese of Cape Town and the diocese of Eshowe and several other orders and organisations.
The Southern Cross, Sunday, May 11, 1997
By Gunther Simmermacher
INTERNET users can now find that certain Catholic email address with the click of their computer mouse.
Fr. Gerard Lagleder of Eshowe has set up a Catholic Internet and email directory of southern Africa on the World Wide Web.
The Benedictine priest is also the "webmaster" of Eshowe diocese's homepage, which has been included in a Top 500 of Catholic sites in a book on the subject by expert Tom Fox.
The directory, which is still in its infancy stage, is intended to "fill a gap, as there was no such information on the Internet before," Fr Lagleder said.
"As webmaster of Eshowe homepage, I received numerous emails and guestbook entries which acually have nothing to do with our diocese, such as somebody asking me if there are any Irish veterans in South African Catholic parishes."
His other aim is "to encourage dioceses, parishes and Catholic organisations to present themselves on the Internet." He offers his assistance in setting up and publishing webpages. ...
Fr Lagleder's directory offers the email addresses, with direct links, of Catholic structures as diverse as SACBC, The Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard, and the Catholic Justice and Peace commission in Zimbabwe, among others.
At time of going to press, the directory did not offer addresses of homepages, but Fr Lagleder said this would follow soon.
Fr Lagleder said the addresses were compiled from the Catholic Directory and his private collection of addresses. However, the Internet directory is not complete, and additions are welcome.
He said he also would like to publish the Internet addresses of private and business homepages of Catholics in southern Africa, provided their page mentions their involvement in the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Internet Directory can be accessed at: http://www.smom-za.org/cidsa/
For additions to the directory or requests for assistance in setting up a homepage, Fr Lagleder can be contacted at the email address: webmaster 
cidsa.org
The Southern Cross, Sunday, April 13, 1997, page 3
By Gunther Simmermacher
... The only South African diocese represented on the Web is Eshowe at: http://www.smom-za.org/eshowe/ ...
The Southern Cross, Sunday, March 30, 1997, page 10
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