OnePeterFive contributing editor, Kennedy Hall, doubles as a journalist with LifeSiteNews and a daily radio host on The Crusade Channel. Part of rebuilding Catholic culture involves finding a way to use the good that media technologies can offer us by …
Category: Multimedia
A Not So Silent Pandemic Attacking Our Wills
Twitter is stupid. Change my mind…in 280 characters or fewer. To that I add Instagram; Netflix; Snapchat; and, hypocritically, Facebook as being more or less worthless. Present a meme to convince me otherwise [i]. Our reliance on social media has …
Live-Streamed Catholicism and Feeding the Mass Addiction
Growing up in Bugnini’s liturgical reign of terror, for me, the only semblance of non–spiritually benumbed sanity at Mass came from watching EWTN’s daily Mass. I rejoiced at hearing hymns older than 1966, as well as encountering homilies void of …
Bishops Policing Catholic Media: Bad Idea, Won’t Work
On January 24, the National Catholic Register published an article titled “Catholics Reflect on 10 Years of the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Social Media.” Within the article were a number of quotes from Bishop Robert Barron, auxiliary of Los …
If Catholics Want Good Media, We Have to Pay for Them
Anyone paying attention will have noticed the steady decline of morals and Christian values in mainstream entertainment. Conversation among Christians, in person and online, is filled with statements such as “Don’t give your money to Hollywierd” and that we are …
“There is So much God Wants to Say to this Generation” – An Interview with Michael Chang
By now you’ve probably seen the video. Simple text overlaid on sweeping and beautiful natural vistas set to a serene — but determined — instrumental soundtrack. Subtle stylistic choices: the use of lens flare, vintage film effects, and mirroring; the use …