{"id":6784,"date":"2011-01-26T11:39:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T17:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?p=6784"},"modified":"2011-01-26T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T17:46:29","slug":"not-just-about-the-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2011\/01\/26\/not-just-about-the-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just About the Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his annual message for the church&#8217;s World Day of Social Communications, Benedict called for the faithful to adopt a &#8220;Christian style presence&#8221; online that is responsible, honest and discreet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/popesocialmedia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6787\" title=\"popesocialmedia\" src=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/popesocialmedia-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/popesocialmedia-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/popesocialmedia.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;We must be aware that the truth which we long to share does not derive its worth from its &#8216;popularity&#8217; or from the amount of attention it receives,&#8221; Benedict wrote. &#8220;The proclamation of the Gospel requires a communication which is at once respectful and sensitive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Benedict didn&#8217;t name names, but the head of the Vatican&#8217;s social communications office, Archbishop Claudio Celli, said it wouldn&#8217;t be incorrect to direct the pope&#8217;s exhortation to some conservative Catholic blogs, YouTube channels and sites which, with some vehemence, criticize bishops, public officials and policies they consider not Catholic enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2011-01-24-pope-facebook-blogs-24_ST_N.htm\">Read the whole article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">In his annual message for the church&#8217;s World Day of Social Communications, Benedict called for the faithful to adopt a &#8220;Christian style presence&#8221; online that is responsible, honest and discreet. &#8220;We must be aware that the truth which we long to share does not derive its worth from its &#8216;popularity&#8217; or from the amount of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2011\/01\/26\/not-just-about-the-hits\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,64,18,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-ministry","category-technology","category-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}