Catholic News Service has taken a brief look at a baker’s dozen of widely used apps and summarizes them in this listing. Most are available in multiple languages, including Spanish.
Catholic prayer apps of many styles guide people in their faith journey
Philippine parish spends 24 hours of ‘silence with the Lord’
ather Robert Reyes, parish priest and human rights activist, said the move was based on the U.S. National Day of Unplugging, which promotes a 24-hour respite from technology.
Deacon hopes to expand Stella Maris services to Greenland, Nordic nations
Deacon Noval aims to provide seafarers in Nordic countries with the kind of practical help and pastoral care that Stella Maris offers elsewhere in the world.
Program explores how social media can help young people engage their faith
Discussion participants described their use of social media and offered advice to young adults on how to gain positive experiences from their interactions on the various online platforms that exist.
Mark Pattison: Media literacy helps ‘contain the fire hose’ of media bombardment
“Common Sense Media says the average teenager spends nine hours each day with entertainment media.”
Using papal guidance, author offers practical, purposeful online habits
This “sea of pings and dings, tweets and posts, ‘likes’ and hashtags,” as author Ann M. Garrido calls it, grips us and won’t let go.
Brett Robinson: A well-ordered interior life starts with examining our internal monologue
“Start by asking, ‘To whom is my interior conversation ultimately directed?’ Myself, my social media followers or God?”
Week raises awareness of NFP and how it enriches sacrament of marriage
“To have … To hold … To honor: Supporting God’s gifts of love and life in marriage” is the theme of Natural Family Planning Awareness Week July 25-31.