Don Alberto Ravagnani He replies to our phone call from Rome. He dodges a few greeting and then gets in a place where he can talk to us. It is atAuditorium Conciliation Where one of the first meetings of the Jubilee of digital missionaries and Catholic influencers are being held. A fairly atypical encounter for a Jubilee.
Born in 1993, origins Brianzole, Don Alberto Ravagnani is the bishop of a digital diocese. Ha 250,000 followers On Instagram, 160,000 members on his YouTube channel and already has several hosted on various podcasts, starting from Wild musk. Even if then the relationship with Fedez He didn’t go smoothly. Everything, as for many creators, has begun with Covid.
In its content uses all the languages of social media. Theatrical expressions for previews, titles in caps lockminiatures with highlighted profile. He also started a series for a few weeks on YouTube in which I interview Creator of the fitness world. It has an average kit for interviews, also well done. Don Alberto is the most followed among the priests who in recent years have decided to venture on the path of the algorithm.
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What happens to the Jubilee of digital missionaries?
They are a series of meetings to gather the digital missionaries from all parts of the world. The idea is to celebrate this mission together too.
Is it a general approval from the Church? At least in Italy, all the priests who are active on social media have done it independently.
Yes. Somehow it is one form of approval. Before I was what the social ball had, now there is instead the Dicastery of communication which presides over these activities from above.
Will an order of digital missionaries be born?
I don’t believe in these terms but It is a theme. The church is divided into the diocese and parishes but social networks exceed the territories. Who should they realize for what I say in these channels?
What are content on social media that have worked the most?
If I think of the interactions with the public, the things that work best are the collaborations with influencers. I started a series dedicated to the gym and I met many people who work on social media in this world but I also worked with EmalloruPietro Morello or Fedez and Luis when they did together wild musk.
I guess users often write you, guys and not.
Yes, it happens a lot.
What do they ask you?
Most of the time they are questions about moral that concern sex. Sometimes they are more issues Generic on faith. Often the guys write to me because they had a path of faith from young peopleeven just with the catechism, but then they hoped for it. Generally then there are many Questions about loneliness.
From Covid many services have digitized. Will confession via streaming come?
No, here. The sacraments still have to administer in presence. At most you can make meetings or moments of streaming reflection but I see that young people are not very convinced. These are things that work for a more adult audience.
When did you decide that you would become a priest?
The first thoughts started a 17 years. Then I did the two years of discernment and then I entered the seminary.
What happened at 17?
A confession. I do not come from a religious family, I had a strong experience of God during a confession and then in the days after I heard how things inside me started to change. I have become aware of my wounds.
Never had doubts?
During the course to become Sarcedote no. Now I don’t know, it’s a complex period. I live in Milan, I meet many people who they believe differently. I am realizing that the Church is not only the baptized community. There is much more. I am starting to understand that often my role is an impediment to a real encounter with others.
Social, now we know, can also be full of negative comments.
Yes, certainly. In addition to the unrepeatable ones, I get very annoyed by those who come from a part of faithful who is contrary to my way of evangelizing. They tell me that I put myself in front of Jesus. They accuse me of being a narcissus. I am not.
Next project on social networks?
My podcast.
Do you already have the name?
Easy: Doncast.
