Yes it true; Pope Benedict XVI has urged all priests to embrace the opportunity that digital media provides in order to spread the word of the Gospel.
In his message for the 44th World Communications Day Pope Benedict says priests can discover new possibilities for carrying out their ministry through the technologies that are now available.
He challenged priests to: “proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources (images, videos, blogs and websites) which, alongside the traditional means, can open up broad new vistas for dialogue, evangelisation and catechesis.”
Here at the leader website we totally agree- that is except for any mention of vista; what an awful mistake that was by Microsoft!
According to the Bishop of Clogher, Joseph Duffy, the Church has a responsibility to ensure that Christ is present in cyberspace so as to give a ‘soul to the fabric of communications that makes up the web.’
Well Different Deadline would like to offer the public platform for our local priests to blog to their hearts content.
There’s a whole new conversation to be had about where the Church stands in Irish life in 2010. What better place to start it, but online.
Now that the Pope has given the web his blessing, you’d never know- it might just catch on!
Wednesday 27 January 2010
Saturday 23 January 2010
Leader Talk podcast has arrived
The Longford Leader has launched its first Leader Talk podcast this week.
This will be a fortnightly production which will be posted to the Longford Leader website on the first and third Friday of each month.
This week presenter Fintan Duffy was joined by RTE journalist Fran McNulty, Vice-Chairman of the Leinster Council of the GAA Martin Skelly, Sheila Reilly, the editor of the Longford Leader and Seamus Butler the president of Longford Chamber of Commerce.
The podcast was recorded in Backstage Theatre in Longford on Friday January 22nd.
Check it out at: http://bit.ly/5njJnB
This will be a fortnightly production which will be posted to the Longford Leader website on the first and third Friday of each month.
This week presenter Fintan Duffy was joined by RTE journalist Fran McNulty, Vice-Chairman of the Leinster Council of the GAA Martin Skelly, Sheila Reilly, the editor of the Longford Leader and Seamus Butler the president of Longford Chamber of Commerce.
The podcast was recorded in Backstage Theatre in Longford on Friday January 22nd.
Check it out at: http://bit.ly/5njJnB
Sunday 10 January 2010
'No one saw this coming'- Government needs to visit Specsavers
This surely is the epitaph for Brian Cowen's government. When the economy went bust all the experts inside and outside of Leinster House used the mantra that there was no indication that this collapse was on the cards.
When the country flooded late last year any criticism of the Government's response was once again rebutted with the line that this couldn't have been predicted.
Then the snow and ice came and what do you think happened?
Yes, the excuse for needlessly allowing the country to grind to a halt was that 'no one saw this coming'.
All three events which have exposed the lack of organisation and command at central, and indeed local level.
The financial crash was a worldwide issue; the flooding was due to historically high rainfall; and the freezing temperatures were the worst since the 1980s.
All three excuses are true; but it's how the Government responded in all three cases that is the problem.
For Minister Gormley and the Taoiseach to use this sort of guff to try to explain why they were so badly caught asleep on the job, is pitiful.
Gormley's attempts to pass the buck on Prime Time last week concerning who reported to him and who didn't, shows us that he has bought into the Fianna Fail way of doing business.
Blame the system for your own failure and establish a committee to make sure it never happens again.
These guys think that rounding up a few heads of department, and a couple of outsiders with some credibility, and using the phrase 'emergency response' to describe the work of the committee, is the way to keep the angry punters off their backs.
There must be serious concern now that the State can respond to any major national emergency without putting on the usual Keystone Cops performance.
The emergency plans of all local authorities should now be the subject of independent examination.
Some of them read like something out of Alice in Wonderland. They would crumble under the pressure of even the slightest test.
I'm suggesting that the ad agency that runs the Specsavers account use the economic crash, the flooding and the Big Freeze as the backdrop for their next campaign.
Use all the news clips of Cowen, Coughlan and Gormley repeating the 'no one saw this coming' mantra, and they will be onto a winner.
It would be very funny too, if it wasn't so serious.
When the country flooded late last year any criticism of the Government's response was once again rebutted with the line that this couldn't have been predicted.
Then the snow and ice came and what do you think happened?
Yes, the excuse for needlessly allowing the country to grind to a halt was that 'no one saw this coming'.
All three events which have exposed the lack of organisation and command at central, and indeed local level.
The financial crash was a worldwide issue; the flooding was due to historically high rainfall; and the freezing temperatures were the worst since the 1980s.
All three excuses are true; but it's how the Government responded in all three cases that is the problem.
For Minister Gormley and the Taoiseach to use this sort of guff to try to explain why they were so badly caught asleep on the job, is pitiful.
Gormley's attempts to pass the buck on Prime Time last week concerning who reported to him and who didn't, shows us that he has bought into the Fianna Fail way of doing business.
Blame the system for your own failure and establish a committee to make sure it never happens again.
These guys think that rounding up a few heads of department, and a couple of outsiders with some credibility, and using the phrase 'emergency response' to describe the work of the committee, is the way to keep the angry punters off their backs.
There must be serious concern now that the State can respond to any major national emergency without putting on the usual Keystone Cops performance.
The emergency plans of all local authorities should now be the subject of independent examination.
Some of them read like something out of Alice in Wonderland. They would crumble under the pressure of even the slightest test.
I'm suggesting that the ad agency that runs the Specsavers account use the economic crash, the flooding and the Big Freeze as the backdrop for their next campaign.
Use all the news clips of Cowen, Coughlan and Gormley repeating the 'no one saw this coming' mantra, and they will be onto a winner.
It would be very funny too, if it wasn't so serious.
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