{"id":16157,"date":"2026-04-19T09:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16157"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:43:52","slug":"archdiocese-of-roblox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16157","title":{"rendered":"Archdiocese of Roblox?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It appears some (seemingly young) folks are using Roblox to re-create various celebrations of the Catholic Church. They have quaintly called themselves the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ArchdioceseofRoblox\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ArchdioceseofRoblox\">Archdiocese of Roblox<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/643P3gwN374?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They seem to use music, audio, and clips from real celebrations &#8211; with possibly only the individually spoken readings and priest parts re-created by characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not a comedy or spoof. The few I have seen are pretty reverent and they genuinely doing a good job. It&#8217;s fascinating to see young people engaging their faith &#8211; continuing a several year trend of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordonfire.org\/articles\/its-true-young-people-are-seeking-the-faith\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wordonfire.org\/articles\/its-true-young-people-are-seeking-the-faith\/\">dramatic increase in people, and especially young people, coming to churches<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While none of these are valid sacraments, they are invitations to pray and possibly to experience faith in a way that might be inviting to others that might not experience God in any other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XdLm28HkaOk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears some (seemingly young) folks are using Roblox to re-create various celebrations of the Catholic Church. They have quaintly called themselves the &#8216;Archdiocese of Roblox&#8216;. They seem to use music, audio, and clips from real celebrations &#8211; with possibly only the individually spoken readings and priest parts re-created by characters. This is not a comedy or spoof. The few I have seen are pretty reverent and they genuinely doing a good job. It&#8217;s fascinating to see young people engaging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16157\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4cB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16161,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16157\/revisions\/16161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}