The pope told employees of the Italian state broadcasting corporation, RAI, that their work should be "a response to the needs of citizens," and he encouraged them to serve the common good "with a spirit of universal openness."
Though they’re gifts from God, living and working behind our media screens can sap our energy and leave us feeling listless and spiritually dry. Growing our spiritual lives while immersed in a digital world requires a media spirituality that centers us in
With the introduction of reality television, audiences no longer must search to find fictional families that they can relate to -- there are endless shows that follow every kind of family, from the wealthy and famous to poor country folk. But what
Kathryn Jean Lopez shares a story about how to deal with people when they make assumptions about you. After a recent talk she gave at a conference, she stepped into an Uber with a talkative driver. She writes: “As I left the
Pope Francis recently commented about the possible need to make exceptions to the norm in the Roman rite of ordaining only unmarried men to the priesthood. Some in the secular media took his comments totally out of context, writes Monsignor Owen Campion:
The media and the field of communications need to exercise more kindness and share the truth with charity, Pope Francis said.
"Kindness is not only a question of 'etiquette' but a genuine antidote to cruelty, which unfortunately can poison hearts and make relationships
In a new column for Our Sunday Visitor, Pauline Sister Nancy Usselman writes that parenting today can be difficult given the fact that kids have almost constant access to media via their smartphones. “As a media literacy educator, I try to offer
The secular media landscape often depicts nuns as stern, joyless and anything but media-savvy. Of course, such a generalization could not be further from the truth, and the Daughters of St. Paul are a prime example of the joy and evangelistic enthusiasm
In his first appearance at the National Press Club as archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory on Sept. 8 emphasized the importance of protecting the environment and upholding the dignity of human life at all stages.
He also answered questions on issues
In 2020, analysts tracked a lot of COVID-centric numbers, focusing on infections, hospitalizations and deaths. We followed the numbers up and down, watched the repeated swelling of the first that, as predicted, led to the second two. Plenty of news outlets —