I really enjoyed this episode, and the ongoing discussion about JD’s “lay preacher” idea. The discussion about the Pontifical Academy For Life’s Twitter activity was outstanding, however, and raised the right questions. I appreciate the effort to establish that it doesn’t appear to just be some “intern with the keys” that published th…
I really enjoyed this episode, and the ongoing discussion about JD’s “lay preacher” idea. The discussion about the Pontifical Academy For Life’s Twitter activity was outstanding, however, and raised the right questions. I appreciate the effort to establish that it doesn’t appear to just be some “intern with the keys” that published this, which raises all sorts of disturbing questions about the way in which the Holy See and its various agencies approach social media. Who indeed writes these things? Without someone signing their names to these posts and with the agencies further refusing to take responsibility for ill-considered (and I would argue in the case of the Humanae Vitae post, explicitly scandalous) posts, this just muddies the waters of Catholic intellectual development as opposed to contributing positively to authentic doctrinal development and evangelical engagement with the world.
I really enjoyed this episode, and the ongoing discussion about JD’s “lay preacher” idea. The discussion about the Pontifical Academy For Life’s Twitter activity was outstanding, however, and raised the right questions. I appreciate the effort to establish that it doesn’t appear to just be some “intern with the keys” that published this, which raises all sorts of disturbing questions about the way in which the Holy See and its various agencies approach social media. Who indeed writes these things? Without someone signing their names to these posts and with the agencies further refusing to take responsibility for ill-considered (and I would argue in the case of the Humanae Vitae post, explicitly scandalous) posts, this just muddies the waters of Catholic intellectual development as opposed to contributing positively to authentic doctrinal development and evangelical engagement with the world.