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Stop just blaming mobile phones for children’s despair: Parents bringing up children without God isn’t helping either

April 10, 2024

Concerns and platitudes about mental health is all the rage for children these days. Over the years, with my three older children at school, I have seen offers of yoga (which is not exactly in keeping with Catholic teaching), therapy dogs, counsellors, assemblies on mindfulness, well-being week, “all-about-me” posters and much more. Granted, some of

Helping young people flourish in the age of the ‘social media trap’: rediscovering the lost ‘art of association’

April 08, 2024

In hindsight the Covid pandemic was the world’s most extensive experiment to settle a centuries-old question that has befuddled scientists and philosophers alike – despite the guidance offered by the Church. The apparent riddle for such lofty minds is whether human beings are primarily individuals who just enter society out of selfish needs, or are

November 26, 2021

Freeing oneself from the clutches of social media is a tremendous palaver but is worth it to escape something that has become ineffably sinister

Why we needed a Facebook group for Catholic Mothers

April 26, 2018

The group now has over 2,000 members worldwide and is continuing to grow

How social media is leading millennials to Rome

March 01, 2018

The internet is changing the way people cross the Tiber

The Scottish cousins who turned their parish into a social media sensation

October 26, 2017

Holy Family parish is now one of the most popular Catholic Facebook pages in Britain

How online propaganda is tearing the Church apart

October 05, 2017

The Catholic cyber-wars have broken out and the casualties are piling up

Philippines military asks Facebook to remove video of church desecration

June 08, 2017

Officials have also urged people not to share the video, saying the militants sought to fan hatred between Christians and Muslims

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