The Church’s Dilemma
By Brett Robinson – A recent Netflix documentary about the social media industry called “The Social Dilemma” has raised some important questions for the church in the digital...
Category: Social Media
Online Rage: Sweeter Than The Honeycomb
By John Garvey – I’m certainly not the first person to observe that the tone of our civic discourse has gotten increasingly angry. I have recently come to...
Social Media for Parishes and Organisations
Below you’ll find social media graphics that you can download and use on Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook to announce The Southern Cross Magazine to your parish. Right-click,...
How to be Church in the ‘New Normal’
The Covid-19 crisis and the lockdown have forced parishes to find new ways of being Church, especially through digital means. Fr Brett Williams argues that this will help...
Successful Catholic App Adds Features To Help People Cope In Pandemic
By Joyce Duriga – In 2018, Alessandro DiSanto quit a promising job in finance to join friends in starting an app for Catholics centred around meditation and...
Think before you click
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
