Abortion / Church / Social Media / Technology & Christian Life
by CNS · Published April 20, 2019 · Last modified April 17, 2019
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...
Christian Living / Sarah-Leah Pimentel / Social Media
by Sarah-Leah Pimentel · Published March 19, 2019 · Last modified March 17, 2019
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...
Church / Life Issues / Sin in our Lives / Social Media / Society
by asiel · Published February 11, 2019 · Last modified February 10, 2019
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...
Christen Torres / Social Media / Youth
by Christen Torres · Published September 11, 2018 · Last modified September 10, 2018
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,...
Fr Chris Townsend / Parish Life / Social Media / Suffering and Pain
by Chris Townsend · Published May 8, 2018 · Last modified May 6, 2018
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 / Pope Francis / Social Media
by Kilian SC · Published May 7, 2018 · Last modified May 6, 2018
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.
Christian Living / Media / Social Media / Technology & Christian Life
by Kilian SC · Published December 9, 2017 · Last modified December 6, 2017
“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”
Christian Living / Global Issues / Social Media / Youth
by Caleb SC · Published November 6, 2017 · Last modified November 3, 2017
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.
Christian Living / Global Issues / Psychological issues / Social Media / Technology & Christian Life / Youth
by Kilian SC · Published October 8, 2017 · Last modified October 6, 2017
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.
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...
Governments, having observed shameless efforts by mass-media marketers to use children to separate parents from their money, have had to step in repeatedly over the past 40-plus years with laws and regulations to stop...
Christian Living / Fr Chris Townsend / Social Media
by Chris Townsend · Published September 29, 2016 · Last modified September 27, 2016
Sometimes Catholic communication seems like an oxymoron, like military intelligence or clean government. As the person responsible for communication for the bishops’ conference for seven years, I experienced the joys and extreme frustration of...
