Catholic thought leaders who are creating provocative content worth following

 

Catholic thought leaders who are creating provocative content worth following

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National Catholic Reporter [Kansas City MO]

September 5, 2025

By Maxwell Kuzma

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In the online Catholic landscape, a near-constant churn of sensationalized clickbait stokes fear, cultivates exclusion and funnels viewers down a pipeline of opinion and misinformation that, in many cases, drifts dangerously far from the church’s core teachings on justice, solidarity and dignity of the human person.

This theological departure has real-world consequences: political campaigns mobilize the Christian right to reduce the freedoms of marginalized groups, deny climate change, reject vaccine science – the list goes on. Pope Leo XIV has addressed this impulse: “Where there is love, there is no room for prejudice, for ‘security’ zones separating us from our neighbors, for the exclusionary mindset that, tragically, we now see emerging also in political nationalisms.”

So, the question becomes: How can left-leaning Catholics fight against online content designed to outrage and radicalize?

One answer is the creation and consumption of media that…