Meet 'digital nun': the Sister funding her monastery through
Posted: 09 Apr 2015, 15:33Meet 'digital nun': the Sister funding her monastery through her apps
Sister Catherine Wybourne is a British nun with a difference: she codes, she tweets, she vlogs - and understandably has a huge following online. On Easter Sunday, Jessica Abrahams tells her remarkable story
By Jessica Abrahams
7:00AM BST 05 Apr 2015
She's a web and app developer with 15,000 followers on Twitter. She produces podcasts, YouTube videos and e-books and runs a selection of websites and blogs. And she does all this from the small rural monastery where she lives as a Catholic nun.
I first heard about Sister Catherine Wybourne when I stumbled across her LinkedIn profile last month while researching religious communities. A “Benedictine nun and web developer” was not what I had been expecting to find. The prioress of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Herefordshire, which she helped to found in 2004, she now leads a mostly self-sufficient life there with just one other nun, Sister Lucy, and a dog named Brother Duncan. But running a monastery requires income and – while nuns elsewhere bring in money by making soaps or jams – Sister Catherine has established a professional web design and maintenance service, offering everything from hosting to content management to social media integration, which goes by the name of “Veilnet”. I had to find out more.
Sister Catherine Wybourne is often looking down... not in prayer but at her phone
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens ... -apps.html
Sister Catherine Wybourne is a British nun with a difference: she codes, she tweets, she vlogs - and understandably has a huge following online. On Easter Sunday, Jessica Abrahams tells her remarkable story
By Jessica Abrahams
7:00AM BST 05 Apr 2015
She's a web and app developer with 15,000 followers on Twitter. She produces podcasts, YouTube videos and e-books and runs a selection of websites and blogs. And she does all this from the small rural monastery where she lives as a Catholic nun.
I first heard about Sister Catherine Wybourne when I stumbled across her LinkedIn profile last month while researching religious communities. A “Benedictine nun and web developer” was not what I had been expecting to find. The prioress of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Herefordshire, which she helped to found in 2004, she now leads a mostly self-sufficient life there with just one other nun, Sister Lucy, and a dog named Brother Duncan. But running a monastery requires income and – while nuns elsewhere bring in money by making soaps or jams – Sister Catherine has established a professional web design and maintenance service, offering everything from hosting to content management to social media integration, which goes by the name of “Veilnet”. I had to find out more.
Sister Catherine Wybourne is often looking down... not in prayer but at her phone
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens ... -apps.html