Good morning,
Before I begin, I’d like to give you all a quick status update on how we’re doing as a blog.
Last year was a year of tremendous growth, and our growth is only continuing, with January already having been an exceptional month.
In the course of a year we shot up 213.8% in total subscribers, and since we added the paid tier we’ve grown about 246.4% in paid subscribers. We really are grateful to all of you who have pledged to support us, especially those of you who pledged money before there was even a paid tier. We get just under a million web impressions on Google per month and are a top result for searches for “Catholic movies” and “Catholic movie reviews”.
Therefore, in an effort to continue this momentum, we are making a big decision in regard to our list of “100 Movies Every Catholic Should See”.
Starting this weekend, posts from the list itself will require our paid tier to view. All other posts that have been free will remain free, especially posts on our new list of “100 More Movies”. However, the list itself (linked below) will remain free to view: it’s just the posts themselves that will be paywalled.
The Official List of 100 Movies Every Catholic Should See
Our list of 100 Movies Every Catholic Should See is finished. It has taken us two years of weekly posts to get here, and I am proud to say that we have never missed a week. The goal of our project since the beginning has been to educate people on the Catholic aspects of the art of cinema. Catholics are often very aware of great Catholic art in the realm…
Again, grateful for all of your support and can’t wait to show you what we have in store this year!
I'm sorry to see this move. I think that this blog has a real evangelization component that a paywall will cut off. If a non-Catholic is curious about what Catholics can appreciate in some of these movies then the paywall will stop them short. It also removes good information from those who can't afford it.
Congrats on the growth you guys! Keep up the good work!