Pope Tweeted into Retirement
Perhaps it wasn’t just the pope’s health that sent him into retirement, but his consternation at our increasingly networked lives.
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Will the Next Pope Hail from Outside Europe?
Educated guesses about the next pontiff.
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Benedict’s Painful Legacy
Critics cite the “devastating” impact of Benedict’s papacy when it comes to the place of LGBT people within the Church, as well as his antagonism toward women religious.
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Papal Retirement: A Matter of Conscience
What do you give to the Pope on the occasion of his retirement? I am sure he has more Rolex watches than he needs, and the red shoes he likes are out of my price range. But a new Church would be just the thing to assure him a dignified old age.
Read MorePope Benedict Takes an Early Retirement—Can Popes Do That?
Yep. But it’s been a while.
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Mark Driscoll Hate-Tweets as Pope Benedict Flip-Flops: This Week in Religion and Social Media
As if the whole Louie Giglio inaugural preaching debacle weren’t enough to sour many in on the religiosity of the American political process, conservative evangelical shock preacher Mark Driscoll stirred a hornet’s nest of Christianist hate and Christian outrage with the following…
Read MoreThe Pope’s Dubious Holocaust Remembrance
I have a better idea.
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Pope Follows Himself in Twitter Echo Chamber
At the end of the day, ministry without meaningful engagement is merely a form of advertising.
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Church Uses Facebook for Sacramental Scrutiny at its Peril
While the Catholic Church has certainly gone out of its way to encourage the use of social media to spread the gospel, it’s unlikely it intended the creepy surveillance that recently took place in a Minnesota parish.
Read MoreWill Romney’s VP Pick Win Catholic Voters?
Or is the choice of Ryan ideological window dressing for a failed campaign?
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