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2020, Catholic World Report
Priests and laity can help each other along the way of grace in different ways, cooperating so as to refine the the authentic desire to fight corruption within the humanity of the Church.
2021
ABSTRACT: As nearly half of the global population is on one or more social networks, the churches need to relate to this rapidly expanding phenomenon. The churches have regarded social media primarily as a tool to fulfill their ministry, so generally in positive terms. However, the negative side of social media requires a proper response from the church, perhaps mainly by serving those who are directly affected by it. But social media is more than just a tool, according to the theory of mediatization, social media deeply influences all aspects of personal and public life. This paper explores what the appropriate response could be on the part of the church to this new reality which poses difficult challenges. KEYWORDS: church, social media, mediatization, ministry, technology
The Influence of Social Media on Christians, 2022
There is a a very peaceful coordination between the Church and Social Media tool when it is use rightly by the Church. Therefore this study is an attempt to establish the interwoven between the Church and Social Media tool.
Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2022
Currently, the Internet is a space where many people and institutions carry out various activities. This situation was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the pandemic, a large proportion of educational, cultural and religious activities took place through the Internet. This network is also a space for people to meet and exchange views and experiences. The Internet, with its huge media possibilities, is a natural environment for influencers, including Catholic influencers, who appear to be leaders and spiritual advisers in the contemporary mediatized world. The characteristics of Catholic influencing and answering the question of whether this is a challenge for traditional spiritual counselling direction and are important goals in this text. The article refers to broadly understood counseling, but focuses on religious counseling and spiritual guidance realized through social media.
A driving engine these days is not manual work, steam power or electricity, but information. Social and economic life is especially based on formation, searching for and classification of information. New information and communication technologies enable a man to get it everytime, everywhere and via the simplest way, regardless whether he or she is at work or relaxing. Web pages, social networks, QR and AR codes help companies to target all potential customers and to persuade them of their need of offered products and services. This description may be applied not only to financial markets, but also to „market of religions“. One of the results of religious pluralism together with secularism is a wide range of spiritual offers and religiously clear societies are on the decrease. Particular religious societies active within information society must actively try to keep old and gain new “customers“. Besides that, the instruction to spread religion, termed in Christian context as evangelisation is a constitutional element of particular religions and, as a rule, it comes directly from their founders. In our paper we would like to describe activities of the Catholic Church in use of new media. Only recently pope’s twitter account has been covered by media worldwide. Together with efforts of Vatican to keep abreast of the times, we will pay our attention to similar activities of lower levels (diocesan, monastic or parish ones) and we will mention several examples from Slovakia and we will not avoid the theological concept of “evangelisation of the digital continent“.
There is no doubt that social media has gained wider acceptability and usability and it is also becoming probably the most important communication tools among people. Church is simply a particular Christian denomination or group of Christian believers. There is perceived effect of social media on the church. Several authors had considered the pro and con of social media on the Church. However it is necessary to view the effect from a scientific point of view. The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that affect the use of social media and determine the percentage contribution of the factors to the success or failure of the church. It is also to evolve a standard metric for planning, management and assessment of social media program in the church. Questionnaires are distributed to church members and factor analysis by principal component using Statistical Package for Social Scientist (SPSS) was carried out. The result obtained placed a high premium on the group account, enlightenment, privacy and security policy issues on social media usage in the church. It is therefore necessary for the church leadership to encourage the use of church group account, develop members’ enlightenment training programme on social media usage, and also advice on workable privacy and security issues on the social media websites. This will impact positively on the growth of the church.
Yet the Church must remember that Social Media also poses threat especially in the spiritual and moral life of the person engaging in it. Knowing these threats, the Church is therefore called to not only venture into evangelization but of becoming a voice that proclaim Christ in the wilderness (cf. John 1:23). In this regard, this paper aims to point several moral challenges shown by the social media and how the Church is responding to these challenges.
2023
The goal of this work is to present and compare some of these norms to point out essential elements necessary for meaningful and productive regulation of social media. The first chapter outlines the history of development of social media, its embrace by the Church, and its impact on her life. The second chapter is dedicated to the development of Church regulations of communications, from their earliest forms to modern mass media. The third chapter presents three most common forms of media regulation in the Church – guidelines, policies, and particular laws – and provides a comparison between them and canonical administrative and legislative norms. Examples from different countries are chosen to show the diversity of such regulation, as well as the similarity of challenges that the Church is facing in today’s rapidly developing media environment.
2019
This qualitative study analysed how the Church utilised Twitter. The empirical material consisted of 937 individual tweets published in early 2017 and classified into three categories: tweets published by the Church, tweets published by other organisations and tweets published by individual persons. The latter two groups were re-tweeted by the Church reasoning their role as empirical research material. At the time of the study, the most topical issues were asylum seekers, equal-marriage laws and human rights. Qualitative content analysis was performed following a step-by-step approach. Networking was identified as the strategy for utilising social media. The results also showed that the way the Church acted in social media was interactive. The Church tweeted openly and encouraged people to join discussions.
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