![]() issues in the church would remain persistent topics throughout the week. And stories related to abuse and L.G.B.T. It has been 21 years now since The Boston Globe first broke stories of abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston, and yet the cascade of revelations, lawsuits and bankruptcies continues. The fact that so many stories from around the world were about abuse was sadly unsurprising, but also pretty brutal to see. Learning a little more about Flipboard got me wondering what kind of vision of the Catholic Church you might find when the audience creating it is from around the world. There were also many stories from around the world about child sexual abuse-the Portuguese conference of bishops saying they and only they would decide whether priests who are convicted of abuse are dismissed from the priesthood an Irish priest who was convicted of abuse but not sent to jail a new Polish documentary accusing Pope John Paul II of protecting pedophile priests when he was archbishop of Krakow, which was a news item that actually hadn’t even broken in the States yet. ![]() The top articles a week ago were about a queer comedian in Australia who made a joke that had offended Catholics, and how various Catholics, including the archbishop of Sydney, responded. At first what I found was a lot of pretty ugly stories. Over the last week, I’ve been popping in on the Catholicism feed on Flipboard. But still, learning a little more about it got me wondering what kind of vision of the Catholic Church you might find when the audience creating it is from around the world. Obviously, as a tech business the company has its own agenda (a.k.a. More intriguing to me, almost 60 percent of its users-all of whom have the ability to boost content by reposting it-live outside the United States. Today, Flipboard has upwards of six million readers a month, almost half of them under 35. It was Apple’s App of the Year in 2010, and Time named it on of the year’s best inventions (alongside Google’s driverless car, Kickstarter, the iPad and spray-on fabric). The app has been around since 2010, and while it may not have exactly invented the idea of being a one-stop spot for all the news you want to see, it certainly did turn it into a big business. At some point over the last six months, I started hearing again about Flipboard, a news aggregator that I’ve had on my iPad for ages, and maybe you have, too.
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