Tag: Social Media

A new TikTok trend is a perfect example of the “ego-drama” and “theo-drama” that Bishop Robert Barron likes to talk about.

Use it. Don’t let it use you.

We’re called to a greater happiness than what simply entertains us.

Without consciously thinking about it, the stories that we tell ourselves shape what we hear in the pews.

“Bishops haven’t felt free to say that,” said the cardinal. “But the pope is free to say it. And he did.”

Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si came out yesterday, and my newsfeeds have been full of my friends’ favorite quotes (which tells you what kind of friends I have). To keep up with

When I shared the terrible things social media are doing to our lives, I started by quoting Plato’s fears that writing would hurt our memories. He was right — it did. But

Plato worried that the new media called “writing” would ruin our memories – and he was right. “If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to

By Dr. Frank Kessler | Dr. Kessler is a professor of Political Science at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan. In this electronic media age that we live we encounter so many words,

In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI said this to a group of young people:  “I appeal to you:  bear witness to your faith through the digital world … employ these new technologies to