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June 2015

June 28, 2015

Monday, June 29: Opening Day for Vatican’s New Secretariat for Communications

We knew that Pope Francis was planning a reorganization of the Vatican's wide-reaching communications offices....

June 08, 2015

Dear Everyone: STOP BITCHING. STOP COMPLAINING.

Look at those Christians, how they love, er, shove one another! I don't know about...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

Facebook Is Catholic, Twitter Is Protestant?

Really? Is Facebook Catholic? That's the analysis offered by British moral theologian Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith,...

May 01, 2015

Why You’ll Never See the “F” Word on My Blog

I get it: I'm older and crankier than some of you. There is an entire...

August 2014

August 06, 2014

Internet and Cell Phones Are “Futile”, According to Pope Francis

"Maybe many young people waste too many hours on futile things, chatting on the internet...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Jill Duggar Meets Her Fiance For the First Time: A Peek Into the World of Online Dating

Perhaps you saw the news a couple of weeks ago that Jill Duggar, from the...

May 15, 2014

Can’t Get Enough of St. John Paul II? Want to Share His Story With Others?

I know just how you feel. And now, the creative team over at Catholic-Link have...

May 02, 2014

BLOGGER SELFIE: Why I Write, What I Write, When I Write

Here I am--participating in the #mywritingprocess blog tour! Elizabeth Duffy got me into this. Well,...

February 2014

February 05, 2014

Facebook vs. the Good Book: Which Is More Popular?

FACEBOOK is ten years old, and the social media giant is celebrating—offering minute-long videos commemorating...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Vatican, Disgusted (As Am I) by Obscenities, Considered Closing Its Twitter Account

"We didn't think some reactions would be so tough." Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, prefect of...

November 2013

November 01, 2013

The Hallmark Ornament Kerfuffle: There’s No Way to Win in the PC Wars

For years Hallmark, the Kansas City-based greeting card company, has produced a line of original...

September 2013

September 03, 2013

Catholic Fisticuffs: Look How Those Christians Shove One Another

It’s been quite a belligerent weekend in the Catholic blogosphere, hasn’t it? First there was...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Dear Facebook: If This Isn’t Hate Speech, Then What Is?

Last month, I and many of my friends filed a complaint with Facebook against an...

July 2013

July 07, 2013

The Vatican Has a YouTube Page!

I guess I sort of knew this--but until today, I had never found my way...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Facebook Is a Charleston Door

Charleston, South Carolina is a traveler’s delight, a swath of historical homes and fragrant gardens...

April 2013

April 08, 2013

You Want to Be My “Friend”? Then Tell Me Who You Are!!

OK, this is just a puzzle to me. WHY IN THE WORLD would someone join...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY: Use Social Media for Good, Pope Says

YES to logic, kindness and Christian witness. NO to bluster, star-status and division. YES to...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

Twitted Wisdom from Our Shepherd

Pope Benedict XVI is tweeting today. After a blitz of papal messages on December 12,...

December 18, 2012

The Digital Nativity Story

What if Mary and Joseph lived today? Wouldn't the Nativity story look something like this?...

December 02, 2012

Now You, Too, Can “Follow” Pope Benedict, Get News As It Happens

When you wake up tomorrow morning, the Catholic Church will have taken another bold step...

November 2012

November 08, 2012

Behold, I Make All Things New: Catholic Church Embraces the New Media

The times, they are a changin’. In recent years, we’ve seen the demise of print...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

What Does It Mean to Be Catholic? Saudi Government Weighs In

Catholic: of, relating to, or forming the ancient undivided Christian church or a church claiming...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Party Hearty, Michiganders: It’s SOCIAL MEDIA DAY!

Hurray, Facebook! Let’s hear it for Twitter! C’mon, YouTube! If you’re in Michigan, as I...

March 2012

March 18, 2012

Blogging Bishops: Faith in the Digital Areopagus

In ancient Greece, the “areopagus” was the meeting point, the arena where intellectuals and philosophers...

February 2012

February 07, 2012

Offensive? Really, Facebook, You've Got to Be Kidding!

Well, this was a first for me: Today Facebook deleted a post I’d written, telling...