Leo-Martin Angelo R. Ocampo (“Internet and Social Media: Bridge or Barrier for a Culture of Communion?”) discusses how the evolving technology of the Internet and of social media can be either a bridge and/or a barrier for a culture of communion. The author traces the development of the Internet from its primary stage (Web 1.0), which gave users access to information stored on servers, to a second stage (Web 2.0), which interconnected people interactively across social networks like Facebook and Twitter, before continuing on to the present third stage (Web 3.0), in which search engines and applications can predict or anticipate users’ interests and thus connect them to websites and people with similar pursuits, and finally to a future fourth stage (Web 4.0), in which there will be an increasing symbiosis between human beings and computers on the cloud. Yet while such advances in cybertechnology have revolutionized communication and enhanced interconnectivity among individuals, the Web has, at the same time, created serious problems such as Internet addiction, social and emotional impairment in growing children, cyberbullying, the proliferation of “fake news,” easy access to pornography and gambling, the use of algorithms in targeted advertising, and cyber identity and personal data theft, among others. Ocampo thus compares the ambivalent character of the Internet to the Biblical image of a two-edged sword that cuts both ways; “the challenge for us,” he says, is “to harness the potential of the Internet so it becomes a bridge and not a barrier to a culture of communion” (58). – From the Editor’s Preface