At the end of June, I will be giving a half-day presentation to seminarians from St. Charles Seminary in Philadelphia on Social Media for the Center for the Study of Church Management, Villanova University. These seminarians are in their acolyte year, which they spend interning in parishes. The program takes place one day a week for 6 weeks. The other topics to be covered are: Spirituality of Administration, Civil Law, Church…
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Theology of Social Media
In his 1999 Exhortation, Ecclesia in America, John Paul II wrote: “I urgently desire to encourage all the members of God’s People, particularly those living in America – where I first appealed for a commitment ” new in its ardor, methods and expression” – to take up this project [the new evangelization] and to cooperate in carrying it out.”
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Survey Results Are In
Thank you to everyone who took time to complete the 2013 Catholic Web Solutions survey which I posted on this site last week. The link at the end of this post will take you to the results summary including the responses to the open ended questions (click on “Show replies” to see these).
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Answer this Survey for a Chance to Win a Prize
It’s the beginning of a new year and a good time to think about which topics would be most helpful to you, the reader, in 2013. If you take the brief survey below, you will have a chance to win a $100 Amazon.com gift card. (You must be over 18 and a legal U.S. resident to win. See all Official Rules at the end of the Survey.) Thanks for your input–you…
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Will Seekers Find Good News on the Internet?
Most probably, we all have heard or read Romans 10:14 more than once: “But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him?” (New Revised Standard) We can expand our application of that verse in light of today’s digital world. Many…
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Hurricane Sandy Reminds Us to Care for One Another
As I write this blog in my office in northeastern Ohio, I am watching the rain continue to fall for the third day. By the time you read this tomorrow or whenever, 60 million people along the East coast will be experiencing or recovering from the impact of the “Frankenstorm,” Sandy, which is scheduled to hit land Monday evening, October 29. Flooding, property damage, and power outages are to be…