Posts Tagged ‘Church and Social Media’

The Vatican pays tribute to the creator of Pope App

Tuesday, August 16th, 2016

Many Vatican dependents wanted to thank Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli on his last day of work at the Vatican. The archbishop presided at the Pontifical Council for Social Communications for more than nine years. He was behind the launch of the website news.va, the application on the Vatican called “Pope App” and the Pope’s Twitter Read more

Rethinking the Church’s social media usage

Friday, August 21st, 2015

Back in 2009, conservative theologian John Piper seemed to be criticising people for wasting time on social media when they should have been praying instead. It is ironic that he decided to use social media to say this. Sadly, Piper’s approach is echoed by most Christian commentary on the subject. Almost every Christian book I Read more