We will be held accountable by God for our tweets and our posts and our gossip, Father Josh Johnson says on the Gloria Purvis Podcast. So we need to have custody of our tongues and custody of our thumbs.
Social Media
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Facebook wants you to pray with them. Don’t trust their intentions.
Facebook’s new prayer feature seems much more likely to invite us to turn further inward into that social media hellscape of narcissism and self-promotion. Pray for us, indeed.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Is your smartphone making you sin more? Consider a technological examination of conscience.
Summer is a good season to take stock of how our dependence on technology can change us. Here are seven steps for seeing your smartphone more clearly.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
After the Pillar ‘outed’ a priest, how much privacy should lay Catholics expect on social media?
Many are no doubt pleased with revelations that expose the hypocrisy of a Catholic priest—again. But what does this incident mean for the rest of us?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
What we do and don’t know about the methods used to track the Grindr habits of a top USCCB priest
Some experts say the level of detail included in the story suggests that whoever provided the information has access to large datasets and methods of analysis that could have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars—or more.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Tabloids, scandal and spying: The U.S. Catholic Church has hit a new, dangerous low point.
Rare is the story that manages to be so depressing in so many ways. A recent report about a Catholic priest allegedly using an app for sexual activity is one of them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Reporting on religion can be dark. But we need people on the God Beat more than ever.
The best essays in ‘The God Beat’ are quietly reflective, deeply informed, subjective but not solipsistic.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Facebook Wants a Monopoly on Human Connection
Is there a way to fight back?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A political document on the Eucharist will push young people even further from the church
As we thought about the future of the church, I couldn’t help but look at the situation on Catholic social media at that very moment.
Posted inFaith, News
Bishop Robert Barron discusses evangelization, social media and the meaning of synodality
During his keynote address at the Catholic Media Conference on June 10th, Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles said the role of Catholic media is to prioritize the proclamation of the word of God.