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On December 3, news spread quickly that two priests had been killed and two injured in a car accident. With some people always keen to be first with the news, it was on social...
Category: Social Media
The Dark Side Of Memes: Spreading Untruths About Religion
By Rhina Guidos – The image seems inoffensive on the surface: a figure of a gray-haired man, presumably God, with text that says: “I gave you free will so use it exactly as I command...
Twitter restricts Mother Teresa abortion quote; CEO can’t explain why
By Jacob Comello – Before the crowd at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, displayed a billboard containing a tweet of a St. Teresa of Kolkata...
7-point Plan to Keep Sane on Social Media
Every year, one of my colleagues gives up Facebook for Lent. The rationale is quite simple; she wants to use the time she would normally spend on social media to make more time for...
Internet, Online Porn seen as Enabling Sexual Exploitation of Children
The internet facilitates sexual exploitation, a category of child abuse, according to experts in this field interviewed by Catholic News Service. The internet also, they say, enables near universal access to violent pornography, with...
Digital Pathfinding – Protecting Young People in a Digital Age
A seminar to equip young learners for the digital world is being presented by the Jesuit Institute of South Africa and the Catholic Institute of Education this month. Web Rangers, one of the participants,...
The Wounds of Social Media Violence
Anyone involved in the more social side of social media cannot help seeing the growing polarisation based on race that surrounds our civic (but often not so civil) dialogue.
Catholic Media: Don’t Cage the Spirit in Pursuit of “Likes”
In an age when technology is ever-evolving, Catholic news organisations must be willing to adapt to effectively proclaim the Gospel to all, Pope Francis said.
What is Net Neutrality and How Does it Affect Christians?
“Without open internet principles which prohibit paid prioritisation, we might be forced to pay fees to ensure that our high-bandwidth content receives fair treatment on the internet”
3.2 billion Internet Users: Fighting Online Exploitation
Despite its countless benefits in advancing learning and global communication, the internet has had its pitfalls. The most heinous has been the growth of online child sexual exploitation.
Kids Need Everyone to Fight Online Abuse and Exploitation
With the enormous scale and devastating effects of child exploitation and abuse online, including exposure to pornography, the world must act to protect children at all costs, speakers at a world congress said.
Retain Open Internet ‘by strongest legal authority available’
In comments delivered to the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the FCC to use “the strongest legal authority available” to “retain open internet regulations.” The current regulations, adopted in...
