How I Promote The Catholic Faith In The "Digital Continent" - Personal Case Study

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Something deep inside me compelled me to write this post on how I use the Internet to try and promote the Catholic religion without “forcing” other people, as it is wrong on this forum.

Step 1: I use Google Alerts (alerts.google.com) to receive news on specific keywords e.g. I use ‘Vatican’ to recive news, blog posts, discussions, videos etc on the Vatican.

**Step 2: **I use Feedly (feedly.com) to keep a record of all new posts using Step 1 above.

**Step 3: **I use StumbleUpon (stumbleupon.com) to ‘like’ the posts containing Vatican.

The reasons why this is useful is as follows:
A: People who stumble upon the page will become curious.
B: If you promote posts containing the word ‘Vatican’, then the articles might become more popular. This will encourage publishers to write more posts on the Church, since they will become popular.
C: I will be spreading the word of God in my own way.

Could we all brainstorm and list ways we could promote the Catholic religion on the Internet. Feel free to criticise and suggest and list your own personal ways of evangelising the word of God online.

Note: You can replace Stumbleupon with another social network e.g. Facebook ,Twitter or Google+. It does not make that much of a difference. Remember if we even let one person be more willing to research on our Religion, we will be meeting our duty as Catholics.
 
Interesting idea you have. I get Google alerts on the word “Catholic” in the news media. I have not run statistics, but the articles are overwhelmingly about whoever is the latest priest accused of abuse, or sports recap of a school with the word “Catholic” in its name. Would your automatic “likes” of posts that contain Vatican likewise promote slanderous articles on the Church?
 
Like in everything you need to ‘curate’ and decide what to promote/not to promote. What I mean is no I do not promote all posts, even though certain companies enhance their ‘brand’ by also publishing their shortcomings.

But if priests abuse their role, I see nothing wrong in promoting the post as long as it is the truth. I mean even Pope Francis does not hide mentioning shortcomings by the Church and shows humility by acknowledging mistakes.

The Gospels write about St Peter before cruxificion of Jesus, so if Gospels do not hide the ‘bad’ of the Church why should I.

As a Catholic, I believe that the Church is right in spiritual and moral teachings, but no one is perfect so they may get ‘human’ materialistic things wrong, since the Church is such a large multi-national organisation.
Interesting idea you have. I get Google alerts on the word “Catholic” in the news media. I have not run statistics, but the articles are overwhelmingly about whoever is the latest priest accused of abuse, or sports recap of a school with the word “Catholic” in its name. Would your automatic “likes” of posts that contain Vatican likewise promote slanderous articles on the Church?
 
Like in everything you need to ‘curate’ and decide what to promote/not to promote. What I mean is no I do not promote all posts, even though certain companies enhance their ‘brand’ by also publishing their shortcomings.

But if priests abuse their role, I see nothing wrong in promoting the post as long as it is the truth. I mean even Pope Francis does not hide mentioning shortcomings by the Church and shows humility by acknowledging mistakes.

The Gospels write about St Peter before cruxificion of Jesus, so if Gospels do not hide the ‘bad’ of the Church why should I.

As a Catholic, I believe that the Church is right in spiritual and moral teachings, but no one is perfect so they may get ‘human’ materialistic things wrong, since the Church is such a large multi-national organisation.
I’m referring to over-exagerrated, misleading articles or ones that outright misrepresent the Church, or even Pope Francis. Such articles are very common.
 
I’m referring to over-exagerrated, misleading articles or ones that outright misrepresent the Church, or even Pope Francis. Such articles are very common.
I obviously do not promote those.
 
But how do you distinguish? If I understand correctly - your promotion is automated based on keyword? Correct?
No, it is not automated.
I view the RSS feeds of Google Alerts, and I decide based on the results. No I receive all the news but I stumble only the ones I see as appropriate.
 
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