By Tom Thomas – Each year Lent rolls around, we get an opportunity to retreat a bit from the world, enter the state of solitude
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Tag: Social Media
Giving Up for Advent
By Tom Thomas. “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”- Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol “It is
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Embracing Silence Over Gossip in an Age of Social Media
By Lavoisier Fernandes – A friend recently introduced me to an intriguing image that sparked my curiosity and led me on a path of discovery.
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The Church and its “Rome Call for AI Ethics”
By Lavoisier Fernandes – In the late 1960s, “artificial birth control” dominated the headlines. It was so much a moral and ethical impasse that it
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N-E India: Youth Encouraged to Use Social Media for Positive Impact
Alva Khyriem – Aizawl: “It takes courage to go against the grain and stand up for what you believe in. The young have a unique
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Social Media: Paradox of Privacy
By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Recent battlelines drawn between social media giants and the Indian government have sharply brought into focus freedom of speech and
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Is ‘Intolerance’ Invading Our Spaces?
By Fr J. Pulinthanath, SDB – We have just bid farewell to a year and stepped in to a new one. Each passing year reminds
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The Social Dilemma
By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – “I put a spell on you… Because you’re mine. And I don’t care if you don’t want me… I’m yours
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Fake News: It Can’t Be the First of April Every Day!
By Fr. Nigel Barrett – “Oh my gosh! Is this really true?” “This is unbelievable!” “Did he (or she) really say this?” Fake News and
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Getting Off the Grid This Lent
By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – Indian spirituality has only one focus: we are an inward turned people. Indian Hinduism and Indian forms of Roman Catholicism both
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CBCI’s Social Communication Office Aims to Reinvent, Reconnect & Reach Out
By Fr Nigel Barrett – The meeting of regional chairman bishops, secretaries of regional commissions and directors of diocesan communications offices under the aegis of
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WhatsApp-ening to You?
By Fr Francis Gonsalves – “Are you on WhatsApp”? is an oft-heard query, today. Almost everyone—including myself, a ‘technologically challenged netizen’—dabbles in WhatsApp, though my
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Of Broken Phones and Unknown Futures
By Susanna D – A couple of days ago I broke my phone. Again. It just slipped out of my hand… Okay, let’s be honest,
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Rome Seminar: A Masterclass for Church Communicators
By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – A deeply engaging seminar for Church Communication professionals has just concluded in Rome at the Pontifical University of the Holy
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CBCI Conducts Social Media Workshop to Counter Fake News
By Felix Anthony – Guwahati: Responding to the challenges of fake news and baked news in an era of social media, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference
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