Jerry Filteau recently wrote for the National Catholic Reporter an article, Technology for Parishes is About Relationships. In it, he discusses how the speakers at the daylong parish technology summit Feb. 25 at Villanova University in Philadelphia (which we  covered here and here) offered a variety of ways that parishes can use today’s computer technology and electronic mobile devices to advance their mission and ministry, especially among youths and young adults.

Check it out!. I was fortunate enough to be quoted…  “Miller struck a similar note when he warned about ‘false intimacy’ on the Internet, saying that sending condolences on Facebeook about someone’s death is not really the same as attending the wake or funeral of the dead person and interacting personally with his or her relatives….  Technology can help Catholics sideline unimportant meetings and ‘concentrate on the important stuff … keeping focused on worship and ministry,’ he said, but he added that such an approach will work only if we steer them toward that primary focus on worship, mission and ministry.