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...
Category: Social Media
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
