Catholic New Media

Crowdsourcing @Lent

Crowdsourcing @Lent

Yesterday, I asked my Facebook, Twitter and Plurk friends for links to catholic resources on the web to help and inspire you during Lent.

Giving up Facebook for Lent? Read this first!

Giving up Facebook for Lent? Read this first!

Lindsey Turrentine wrote an interesting article on CNet about the social pitfalls to avoid by those of you that want to give up Facebook or other social networking addictions for Lent.

Gmail is Down – Here Is What You Can Do

Gmail is Down – Here Is What You Can Do

On February 24, 2009, Google’s Gmail service went down for several hours. Judging from the countless #gmail Tweets posted every minute on Twitter, the world is in disarray. Suddenly we realize how much we have come to depend on ‘cloud applications’, where data is stored not on our computers, but on remote servers.

Who is the silly one? Fr. Barron vs. Bill Maher

Who is the silly one? Fr. Barron vs. Bill Maher

Bill Maher used his speaking time at the Academy Awards as a presenter of the “Best Documentary” to step on his soapbox and tell the world why his own documentary, ‘Religulous’, hadn’t been nominated.

US Bishops are Twittering

US Bishops are Twittering

More and more individual Catholics and catholic organizations are discovering Twitter as a new medium to communicate with a world wide audience.
You can now even follow the U.S.  bishops via Twitter. USCCB Media Relations represent the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to the media and the media to the bishops.
On twitter.com/usccbmedia, you can read important news [...]

Communication and Communion

Communication and Communion

by Fr. Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office
Fr. Federico Lombardi recentely spoke at a meeting of the communications commission for the Spanish bishops’ conference about Catholic communication. Zenit.org posted a lengthy translation of his talk that you can read here. In this article, I want to highlight what Fr. Lombardi said about community building and about [...]

Crisis communication 101

Crisis communication 101

by Fr. Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office
Fr. Federico Lombardi recentely spoke at a meeting of the communications commission for the Spanish bishops’ conference about Catholic communication. Zenit.org posted a lengthy translation of his talk that you can read here. In this article, I want to highlight what Fr. Lombardi said about crisis communication.
Fr. Lombardi spoke at [...]

What every Catholic Communicator should know

What every Catholic Communicator should know

Catholic Communications 101 by Fr. Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office.
Fr. Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, must have experienced some of the busiest weeks of his life as a result of the Williamson controversy.
At a meeting of the communications commission for the Spanish bishops’ conference, Lombardi spoke about crisis communication and about catholic communication [...]

Speaking engagements in 2009

Speaking engagements in 2009

I have updated the Agenda on this website with a number of speaking engagements that are already scheduled for 2009. I will probably add many more keynotes and lectures in the coming months. Some of these events take place in the Netherlands, but I will also be travelling quite a bit to Belgium, the US, [...]

Cool Catholics on Twitter

Cool Catholics on Twitter

I have compiled a list of interesting/high profile/cool Catholics that are active on Twitter.
And don’t worry, you might be cool, even though you are a catholic and not on this list yet
If you’re not on the list, add your Twitter address and a short description of yourself to the comments so we can find you!
Fr. [...]


Father Roderick Vonhögen is a priest of the Archdiocese of Utrecht, the Netherlands and CEO of the international Catholic New Media Organization SQPN.com.

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