Social networks and religion: Catholic church facing the connected imaging society

The current religious context is permeated by the strong presence of Catholics in social media, exposing in these, the irreligious experiences. Faced with this constant progress in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTS), the Catholic Church positions itself annually, clarifying its faithful show and when ICTs and, specially, social media, can contribute to the religious lives of Catholics. This article tries to understand how the Catholic Church has interpreted these transformations placed by the ICTs, from the messages through which the institution instructs its faithful to relate to them. The studies on the relationship between communication and religion carried out by Moises Sbardelotto and by Antonio Spadaro orient the discourse analysis of the papal messages presented in this article.