{"id":1290,"date":"2012-10-10T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/vatican-official-encourages-our-sunday-visitor-in-new-media\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T08:06:00","slug":"vatican-official-encourages-our-sunday-visitor-in-new-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/catholicnews\/2012\/10\/vatican-official-encourages-our-sunday-visitor-in-new-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican official encourages Our Sunday Visitor in new media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct 10, 2012 \/ 02:06 am (CNA<\/a>).- At a Sept. 28 dinner celebrating Our Sunday Visitor's 100th anniversary, Archbishop Claudio M. Celli emphasized the crucial role of new media in evangelization.<\/p>\n

\tGreg Erlandson, president of Our Sunday Visitor's publishing division, told CNA that the Vatican official's remarks were seen as \u201ccertainly encouraging for what we're doing, and what other Catholic publishers are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tDuring the celebration, Archbishop Celli told the crowd, \u201cIt is not enough to ask how we can use the new media to evangelize; we must begin by appreciating how radically our way of living has been transformed by new technologies and how the media environment or landscape has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe dinner at the Grand Wayne Convention Center followed a Mass at the cathedral in Fort Wayne. Archbishop Celli serves as president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.<\/p>\n

\tHe focused on the challenges the Church faces as she seeks to evangelize through the new media, and remembered the founder of Our Sunday Visitor, then-Father John Noll, as someone who would today \u201cbe at the forefront of the New Evangelization.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Celli suggested that the \u201cnew\u201d in \u201cnew evangelization\u201d is both \u201cthe situation in which we find ourselves\u201d and \u201cthe response that is required if we are to be faithful to our abiding mission\u201d to foster encounter with Christ.<\/p>\n

\tPeople's constant access to instant information and communication represents a paradigm shift in \u201cthe very culture of communication,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\tErlandson noted that as part of this paradigm shift, Our Sunday Visitor has a social media manager \u201cusing Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook\u201d and that those conversations get shared \u201cinternally as well as happening externally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Celli pointed to the changing nature of internet culture, one that is now more focused on dialogue and interaction than on monologue. He said that while the Church should continue to focus on the content of faith, she must also look to the concerns and questions of her online audience.<\/p>\n

\tHe noted that developing \u201cdialogical forms of teaching and presentation\u201d were anticipated by Archbishop Noll, who promptly replied to every letter he received.<\/p>\n

\tThere is a need, the archbishop said, to communicate the faith not through text alone, but using \u201cart, music and literature\u201d to show how grace is working in the lives of Catholics.<\/p>\n

\tHe noted that the Church must adapt to the egalitarian nature of new media; \u201cit does not automatically recognize or privilege the contributions of established authorities or institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThis, he said, means that Church leaders must convey the gospel such that they can engage and \u201cconvince others who in turn will share our ideas with their friends, followers and dialogue partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tErlandson thought that the archbishop's words acknowledging that \u201cthese forms of communication demand a back and forth, demand dialogue,\u201d were \u201ca courageous statement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe said the dialogue now occurring online is \u201cthe essence of evangelization.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe laity, Archbishop Celli pointed out, are essential to the new evangelization. Their online presence can attract others to Christ and they can help to teach the faith.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cFather Noll provided the faithful with A Vest Pocket Book of Catholic Facts so that they would be able to answer questions about, and address challenges to, their faith. One can only guess what he might have achieved with smart-phones!\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThis point was backed-up by Erlandson, who characterized Archbishop Noll as \u201ca classic early adopter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Celli concluded saying, \u201cEvery Catholic should be an apostle, representing his Church creditably before his neighbors and the people among who he works.\u201d<\/p>\n

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