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An Important Change

 November 20, 2009

Editors of CalCatholic respond to reader complaints, change title of new “Masses Worth Driving To” feature

After several complaints by our readers regarding our new feature, “Masses Worth Driving To,” the editors of California Catholic Daily have decided to change the name to “Churches Worth Driving To.”

On Nov. 4, California Catholic Daily announced the new feature under the headline “A Mass Worth Driving To.” The announcement noted, “Any valid Mass is infinitely worthwhile. But the human elements of a Mass vary. The editors of California Catholic invite readers to provide information on churches of their choice…”

Since the inception of the feature, California Catholic Daily has received valuable responses from its readers concerning the item. The central objection to the feature was over the issue of “Masses,” since, as noted in the original announcement, “any valid Mass is infinitely worthwhile.”

In response to these legitimate complaints, the title of the feature was changed to focus on churches instead of Masses, so that our readers may still submit items about churches without the implication that some valid Masses are more worthwhile than others.

California Catholic Daily invites readers to continue making submissions featuring Catholic churches in California and will continue to pay $50 for any item approved for publication.

Our homepage has been changed to reflect the new title in the clickable buttons on the left side of the page that link readers to archives of “Churches Worth Driving To” and to the submissions section, which provides guidelines to readers who want to submit an item about a church they think is “worth driving to.”

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