So, I think that itвЂ™s a helpful seed to plant to share ideas and to share things, but if you just spend all your time there debating, or arguing, or commenting, you donвЂ™t get out in the sun and talk to real people, I thinks itвЂ™sвЂ¦ I think in general, I see a lot of people who lose their souls too much on social media. I think theyвЂ™ve done surveys in the past few decades, and people have the fewest amount of real friends in person than theyвЂ™ve ever had before. In social media, the paradox, it tries to connect us with people, we actually feel less connected to people than we did before. But at the same time, they also find a lot of garbage out there, or they interact with people in very uncharitable, mean-spirited ways because the nature of social media makes you feel anonymous, or itвЂ™s not face-to-face. They find Catholic Answers Live, Bishop Barron. It has done some good, it allows people to access true things, and thatвЂ™s nice, thatвЂ™s really good. I do feel like in general, social media has been on average, worse for the human community than good. вЂњWhat are your thoughts on online evangelism and apologetics, with many different apps, social media platforms? Should Catholics lean in using these platforms to reach out and evangelize? Are they doing more harm than good?вЂќ Oh, this is a hard one. I will do my best to get somewhere in the 50s. Honestly, weвЂ™re just happy youвЂ™re here, whether youвЂ™re 20% or 100%. Well, thank you, but it seems like Omicron, it spreads a lot faster, but itвЂ™s much more mild, so thatвЂ™s helpful. So I donвЂ™t know what this could be, it might be Omicron, who knows? Thankfully, it seems like Omicron. No, I got COVID, but it didnвЂ™t affect me badly, but I did get shingles along with it, and shingles. Well, in August, I had COVID and shingles, and this could be.

вЂњWhat are your thoughts on online evangelism and apologetics?вЂќ And by the way, I apologize if my voice sounds a little off, or if I cough. IвЂ™ll go to the next one here, because our moderator suggested this one, I believe, so I have to answer yours. There are legitimate things to say there, and there are people who do a good job, others who do not as good a job weighing in on those issues, I just donвЂ™t feel particularly called to it. Now, if there is a cleric who is saying something that is false, contradictory to church teaching, IвЂ™ll say something, but if itвЂ™s just, we donвЂ™t like what they did, you canвЂ™t please everybody. So thatвЂ™s why I havenвЂ™t really given an opinion on Traditionis Custodes, or the motu proprio on the Latin mass, or the synods, or a lot of other things. I am just going to focus on doing apologetics. IвЂ™m just going to be sucked into a big debate online. I saw some tweets earlier about issues that are political, but also affect our faith, and I wanted to write about it or reply to someone, and I was like, you know what? ItвЂ™s not going to be worth it. So what I really want to focus on in my roleвЂ¦ ItвЂ™s really hard actually.

I mean, to be honest, a lot of people do ask me, вЂњWhat do you think about this thing thatвЂ™s happened in the church, or that thing?вЂќ And for a while in my career as an apologist, I had commented on different prudential matters, like what the Pope did, or what this bishop does, or that bishop does, but I find a lot of times, focusing on that generates sometimes more heat than light. Horn, if you were elected as the Supreme Pontiff, what are six reforms you would make?вЂќ I would make a reform that says laypeople cannot be immediately elevated to the episcopacy and the pontificate, and have it retroactively applied to me, so that IвЂ™m not in that position, honestly. ThereвЂ™s a fair amount of interesting ones here. All right, so IвЂ™m going to jump through these, thereвЂ™s a lot here, so IвЂ™m just going to pick and choose around. I donвЂ™t knowвЂ¦ Maybe IвЂ™m a little bit okay with that.

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