On Sunday, November 11, prior to the annual fall meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Baltimore, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) presented the results of their study on “Catholic New Media Use in the United States, 2012” to the U.S. bishops and a group of bloggers that had gathered for “An Encounter With Social Media: Bishops and Bloggers Dialogue.” The national…
Category: Pope Benedict XVI
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Getting Ready for the Year of Faith
In less than three months, the Catholic Year of Faith will begin. With his Apostolic Letter last fall, Porta Fidei, Pope Benedict XVI declared that a “Year of Faith” will begin on October 11, 2012 and conclude on November 24, 2013, the Feast of Christ the King. October 11, 2012, is the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) and also the twentieth anniversary of the…
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Learning to Communicate Requires Learning to Listen, Contemplate and Speak
People go to the Internet and social media for many different reasons, some of them casual and very superficial and others very profound. In Silence and Word: the Path to Evangelization, Pope Benedict’s message for the 46th World Communications Day (May 20), the Holy Father points out that Amid the complexity and diversity of the world of communications, … many people find themselves confronted with the ultimate questions of human…
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Pope Benedict’s Message: Silence and Word
In the February 6 issue of Newsweek, the “World on a Page” section (p.8), there is a brief article about Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for World Communications Day 2012 which takes place this year on May 20. The Newsweek writer characterized the Message as an “admonition against the excesses of the Internet.” I had already read the Message and that was not my impression at all.
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World Youth Day 2011 and Social Media
World Youth Day 2011 takes places in Madrid, Spain from August 16-21. An anticipated one million plus people will be there to celebrate our universal Catholic faith with exuberance and joy. Pope Benedict XVI will be with them from the 18th to the 21st. According to the official WYD Madrid website, this is the first WYD completely connected to social networks.
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The Good and Bad News of Catholic Organizations on the Web
On June 28, 2011, Benedict XVI sent his first tweet to announce the launch of the new Vatican website news.va. This was the first tweet made by a pope and it was made in English on an iPad 2. For Catholics on the Internet, this is good news.