The Church has always spoken about what we allow into the soul. Not only books and films. Also the small screen we unlock before prayer and after Mass.
Many of us still open Facebook because that is where the parish lives — groups, events, a photo from Sunday. That has value. But the feed on Facebook is no longer the people we chose. It is an engine that rewards what stops the thumb. Tragedy stops the thumb. So do cruelty, crime, and the endless headline of a woman killed or a child harmed. You cannot help the person in the picture. You only leave the app more afraid than when you entered.
This is not a conspiracy. It is a business. Attention is sold. Horror is efficient.
There is an older Christian word for this: custody of the eyes. We are not asked to be naive. We are asked not to make a home in what we cannot mend.
On X, if you use the Following tab — not the “For You” tab — you only see the accounts you actually chose. Vatican. A priest. A quiet Catholic shop. A friend who posts a saint’s day.
No blue check required. The difference is not that evil has vanished from the internet. It is that you are no longer forced to swallow it in order to see your own people.
Catholics in Norway do not need another culture war. We need a place where a rosary can appear without a corpse beside it.
If you come, do it simply:
- Open X
- Switch to Following
- Follow a few accounts that pray and think, not accounts that perform rage
- Leave the “For You” tab alone
You will find us at @KatolskTro.
The goal is not to win an argument about a platform. The goal is to protect the inner room where the Hail Mary still has space.
