Communion, Solidarity, and the Digital Commons

A FaithBytes Seminar Workbook on Communion & Solidarity

This seminar workbook treats the Communion & Solidarity strand at the level of theological and ethical inquiry. It assumes you can read primary sources, construct and critique arguments, and connect Catholic Social Teaching to concrete questions of design, policy, and practice. It also assumes you are not merely a student of these questions but an agent within them: a future or current professional, leader, parent, minister, or citizen whose choices will shape digital communities.

Strand: Communion & Solidarity; Real Connections
Grade band: Higher Ed; Undergraduate and graduate students, seminarians, and adult learners

Five lessons · substrand alignment

A

Leading Toward Communion

Community & Belonging
B

Designing for the Margins

Justice & Access
C

Architectures of Belonging

Presence & Togetherness
D

Forming Others for the Common Good

The Common Good
E

Championing Digital Mission

Service and Evangelization

Big questions

What does communion, as the Church understands it, require of digital communities, and how can they be transformed toward justice and solidarity?
How should Catholic Social Teaching shape the design, governance, and critique of technologies that affect marginalized populations?
What forms of scholarship, design, dialogue, and evangelization can shape digital culture toward the common good and genuine communion?

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