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!
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