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Facebook restores Catholic pages after their accidental removal

At least 25 Catholic Facebook pages in Portuguese and English, with many followers, were unpublished without warning between the night of July 17 and the next morning. The pages have since been restored, and Facebook has apologized for their accidental removal.

Vietnamese Catholic blogger sentenced to 10 years in prison

Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, a co-founder of a network of bloggers, was found guilty of “conducting propaganda against the communist government” under Article 88 of the Criminal Law. The government indictment accused Quynh of Facebook posts from 2012 to 2016 “criticizing and deforming the Communist Party’s policies and history, and dividing national solidarity.”

How Facebook is like church, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg

On occasion of the first Facebook Communities Summit, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg compared his company, which recently reached 2 billion users, to churches in the sense that they give a sense of community by expanding horizons and encouraging people to care about broader issues.

The Perils of Sperm Donation 2.0
- Commentary
- April 30, 2017
There has been an explosion of new ways to donate and acquire sperm for artificial insemination. Particularly in the age of social media, conceiving children has become a business. Resisting this throwaway culture, the Church proposes a positive view of procreation’s connection to sexuality which understands children to be a gift, not something that we should have the freedom to purchase in a market.
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After Pope OKs giving to beggars, U.S. bishop says not to
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- March 31, 2017
Bishop Thomas Tobin of Rhode Island took to Facebook on Tuesday to explain why giving money to the homeless is not always a good idea, just one month after the pope endorsed giving money to panhandlers in an interview.
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Digital devotion: Christians get social media, other online tools to observe Lent
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- February 26, 2017
Catholics and Protestants alike are using social media, email and websites to encourage people to pray and reflect in preparation for Easter, when Christians believe Jesus was resurrected. Jen Sawyer, digital content manager at Busted Halo, a New York-based media ministry run by the Catholic Paulist Fathers, believes that whether Christians use any or all of these tools at their disposal, the goal of Lent remains the same.
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