Leaders at the Diocese say the new platform will connect parishioners, share content and resources, and engage a new generation of Catholics.<\/p>\n
The Diocese of Corpus Christi officially launched its new mobile app Monday, calling it a modern way to bring Catholic community members closer together in a digital age.<\/p>\n
The app aims to connect parishioners, share local Catholic content and reach younger generations through an online platform.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the Corpus Christi Catholic Network app,\u201d said Teresa Saenz, a 22-year-old Catholic who says she\u2019s eager to make the app part of her daily routine.<\/p>\n
\u201cI typically spend around like two hours on social media and probably three hours just streaming shows and watching different influencers on YouTube,\u201d Saenz said. \u201cSo, this will definitely be easily incorporated into my streaming routine.\u201d<\/p>\n
The launch marks the culmination of about three years of behind-the-scenes work from staff and volunteers across the diocese.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is my baby. This is so exciting. I woke up this morning and I was like, it\u2019s launch day today,\u201d said Katia Uriarte Philipello, Director of Communications for the Diocese of Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n
Uriarte Philipello has been helping develop the app since its early stages. She said the idea for the platform came from Bishop Michael Mulvey\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the reason that I started working for the Diocese,\u201d Uriarte Philipello said. \u201cWhen Bishop Mulvey talked to me about his vision that he wanted to create a local Catholic network, I was like, I can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Catholic church, a nearly 2,000-year-old institution, is now innovatively stepping into the digital era.<\/p>\n
\u201cLocal Catholic content every Tuesday at 6 p.m., it\u2019s going to go live and then it\u2019s going to be on demand,\u201d Uriarte Philipello said. \u201cAnd then on Sundays, you can watch mass live for those who cannot attend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bishop Mulvey said the inspiration for the project began 16 years ago, when he received a call.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe asked me what we were doing for social media to reach out to the young people,\u201d Mulvey said.<\/p>\n
That conversation, he said, sparked a vision that 16 years later has come to life.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re in a digital era, we\u2019re in social media, and certainly the voice of good, the voice of what\u2019s helpful to people needs to be out there in front and center,\u201d Mulvey said. \u201cSo I hope that this app will really be available to everyone, young and old.\u201d<\/p>\n
While faith in a digital era may look a little different now, leaders at the Diocese say the mission remains the same, bringing people together just like mass does every Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders at the Diocese say the new platform will connect parishioners, share content and resources, and engage a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-35581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}