Use social media to communicate Christian values, schools told

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PASAY City, September 1, 2012—Instead of focusing on how social media can be a platform for scandal and profanity, the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) is encouraging schools to use it to communicate Christian values and ideas.

CEAP president Fr. Gregorio Bañaga, Jr., CM said at a press conference last Wednesday, instead of banning social media, they will ask member-schools to explore how they can be used in a positive way.

He also explained, social media can be used to infuse the Gospel values into people’s hearts.

In what was also the opening of the CEAP national convention, Fr. Bañaga recounted how CEAP partnered with the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) through its youth group, YouthPinoy!, two months ago for an event called the Catholic Social Media Summit.

He mentioned that the 10 Adamson University students sent to participate in the summit gave positive feedback about it.

CEAP Vice-President Fr. Antonio Moreno, SJ, also commented that social media makes geographically distant people close but makes the converse also true.

Fr. Moreno emphasized that what is best to do is to find excesses when using social media in order to regulate it, but not to ban it completely. (Jandel Posion)