I’m pleased to share my first-ever essay on Word on Fire’s main blog, entitled “The Digital Papacy: Newman and the Crisis of Online Catholic Discourse.” The piece explores St. John Henry Newman’s wisdom on papal authority, conscience, and infallibility as a needed corrective to the rampant confusion and ideological weaponization of the papacy so common in the age of social media Catholicism.
(Image: Pope Leo XIV presiding over his inaugural papal Mass. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
