Some Christian users said they planned to stop using Hallow because of its partnership with Carlson, while others praised the collaboration. Multiple users called for boycotts of the app and other sponsors.
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James Talarico’s Colbert cancellation and glimpses of a better kind of Christian politics
What might be most important about James Talarico as a political figure is that he understands the pitfalls of political identification and chooses to lead with his faith rather than his political allegiances.
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How Gen Z Catholicism is growing in the digital age
Catholicism can thrive in internet spaces where opinions are regularly challenged, examined and assessed by diverse audiences.
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Catholics need a digital temperance movement to combat online hate
A digital temperance movement would seek to eliminate from our lives all the addictive technologies and platforms that stoke our anger.
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A viral church ranking series is sending young Catholics to Mass in New York
NEW YORK (RNS) — The social media account exposes a desire among some young Catholics, particularly Gen Z and younger, to find a church that functions somewhere between a place of worship and a social space.
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Evangelist or Catholic influencer? Spreading the Gospel in the digital age.
This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac speak to Noah Banasiewicz, S.J., about the opportunities and pitfalls of evangelizing on social media.
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Nick Fuentes appeals to young Catholics. Is the church prepared to push back?
As bishops remain mostly silent on Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes’s growing influence, Catholic media leaders and scholars are left to explain what his rise says about the church’s shrinking authority online.
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Pope Leo ice blessing sets off social media meltdown
Holy water is a pretty regular feature at Catholic churches, so why were some commentators on social media in an uproar over Pope Leo’s blessing of ice removed from a Greenland glacier?
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Pope Crave: The Catholic social media account bringing Gen-Z vibes to the Vatican beat
How does a fanpage for the 2024 film “Conclave” become a source of real-life Catholic news, memes and discourse with over 100,000 followers on X?
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I can’t give up my phone. But I can work on doing one thing at a time.
My phone is like a needy infant that requires constant heightened attention, even when it is asleep; but unlike an infant, it never stops being hungry, and unlike an infant, it offers so very little compared to what it snatches away.