Catholic Tech Talk

Editor’s Note:  This blog post originally appeared in Lisa Hendey’s CatholicMom.com site.  It highlight’s a wonderful example of New Media in a Church.  Its a great model for every church to consider!  – Joe   I recently came across a tech blog announcement about the hiring of Thomas Sanjurjo as “Electronic Outreach Director” at Nativity [...]

Suggestions on how Catholics should engage in online discussions.

Looking for a Catholic Church? While technology has made this job much easier, it’s still a difficult task. In 2006, the USCCB reported that there were 18,992 parishes in the United States. Considering that new parishes are constantly being built, and older ones are closing or merging, it’s an enormous challenge keeping track of all this information.

So you want to create a Facebook page for your parish.  You may even be wondering why you are really creating one.  How do you do it?  Who will maintain it?  What do you post to it?  All are valid questions that will be touched on. First, a Facebook page provides a parish with several [...]

Last week, the Catholic ‘New Media’ world was abuzz with news that the Vatican had called for an international representation of bloggers to attend a first-ever conference on blogging being hosted in Rome.

There are a lot of ways that technologies can benefit a local parish.  Basically, you can break it down into two categories: Administrative Evangelizing Both are approached in different ways, but can crossover too.  For example, the website for a parish would be for both.  In my opinion, the best “recipe” for effective uses of [...]

George Weigel, wrote a piece over at www.InsideCatholic.com entitled “Aggie Catholic Renaissance”. In it, he outlines the great successes Texas A&M has experienced with young Catholics…

Here’s my wishlist and goals for tech in the Church for 2011.

At the close of the Middle-East Synod this past weekend, Pope Benedict XVI announced that the theme for the next Synod of Bishops would be ‘New Evangelization’. From Zenit: The Pope made the announcement today at the closing Mass of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops, and repeated it [...]

The USCCB (United States Catholic Conference of Bishops) has launched a new website ‘campus’ to promote Catholic social teaching.  From the USCCB site we have this… WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development has collaborated with eleven Catholic organizations to create a new Web site to help college students [...]