There is no reason to doubt Bishop Barron’s good intentions. But his conversation with Shia LaBeouf offers another example of the kind of disregard for victims and women that is so often leveled against Catholic leaders.
Social Media
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Social justice isn’t really a new religion. It still hasn’t figured out forgiveness.
Here in deep-blue Manhattan, I know a lot of people who would indeed see “religion” as a slur.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Bad Bunny is a spiritual guide for our postmodern culture
Bad Bunny’s allusions to God, astrology and spiritism speak to young people who find themselves bored with middle-of-the-road secularism.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
You’re not a Bad Catholic. You’re just in your ‘Sleepy Peter Era’
By calling that time or series of not great choices an “era,” you recontextualize that experience. It is something that happened at a point or during a period in time that is now, emphasis added, over.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis asks Catholic media to combat ‘toxicity, hate speech and fake news’
The pope told Catholic communicators they have an important role to play “through media education, networking Catholic media and countering lies and misinformation.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Lessons from a Twitter hoax that claimed Pope Benedict had died
No, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is not dead. No, Pope Francis is not resigning. And no, the Vatican is not hiding a secret time machine.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Do you really need to post that? A 5-step social media examination of conscience
When a major event hits the news cycle these days, everyone I follow seems to have a compulsive need to respond as quickly as possible. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The TikTok star who melds Catholic tradition and progressive politics
As a young(ish), progressive Catholic, finding places where my deep love for tradition and desire for reform coexist peacefully is difficult. Unexpectedly, I found a space for this on TikTok.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
On Russian oligarchs and ours: we need to talk about our billionaire problem
Elon Musk is making headlines by buying Twitter, but he is only one of the American oligarchs working to protect their wealth while fighting policies that would benefit the common good.
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Roundtable: Should Catholics be part of Elon Musk’s Twitter?
Or should they have already logged off?