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.
Technology
Posted inFaith, Ideas
The pastoral questions raised (but not answered) in The Pillar’s exposé of a USCCB official
Is it appropriate for a Catholic media outlet to take steps to de-anonymize data in order to publicly reveal the sins of another?
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Facebook Wants a Monopoly on Human Connection
Is there a way to fight back?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun’ is a haunting tale of love, loss and…a robot.
The robotic narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel takes us into a dystopian U.S. future.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What if all of our screens suddenly went dark?
Since the 1970s, Don DeLillo has been the wry and cool Jeremiah of American life. His new novel, ‘Silence,’ continues that tradition.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
NFTs are leading to a new financial dystopia. Here’s why you should care.
This latest phase of capitalism has a feeling of déjà vu from its first stage—except rather than speculating on colonial land-grabs and the bodies of slaves, NFTs are making commodities of famous people and GIFs.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
The fight to unionize Amazon is the most important labor story of this century
The most ambitious attempt to unionize in Amazon’s 26-year history has been widely endorsed, including by Senator Marco Rubio.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What I learned from saying Mass on Facebook Live for a year (from a La-Z-Boy chair)
We begin each Mass like the disciples, locked in our rooms, isolated and maybe afraid. Then out of nowhere Jesus appears in our midst and brings us together.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Lessons from a year of online liturgy at a Jesuit parish in Belize
Experimenting with virtual liturgies need not be a cause for despair but instead an invitation from the Lord to try something new.
Posted inPolitics & Society, What Coronavirus Taught Us
What Coronavirus Taught Us about Technology
Online Mass has connected us to a wider church, but it will not replace our local parish.