I figure if we Catholics are going to take the Digital Continent of new media by storm, we need to make sure we’ve read up on all of what the Church has to say about it. So, I’m compiling a list of any Church document, letter, homily or formal resource having to do with how to use new media.
I need your help. Let me know what I’m missing and I will add it in to make sure we have a fairly comprehensive, but still practical, resource list. Just leave any suggestions for consideration in the comment section below.
Here’s what I have so far:
The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World - New Media at the Service of the Word (44th WCD, 2010)
Ethics in Internet - Pontifical Council for Social Communications
New Technologies, New Relationships - Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship (43rd WCD, 2009)
The Media: At the Crossroads between Self-Promotion and Service - Searching for the Truth in order to Share it with Others (42nd WCD, 2008)
The Church and the Internet - Pontifical Council for Social Communications
The Media: A Network for Communication, Communion and Cooperation - (40th WCD, 2006)
Internet: A New Forum for Proclaiming the Gospel - (36th WCD, 2002)
The Christian Message in a Computer Culture - (24th WCD, 1990)
Social Communication: Instruments of Encounter Between Faith and Culture - (18th WCD, 1984)
Inter Mirifica - Decree on the media of social communications (Pope Paul VI, 1963)
Pope Benedict XVI addresses Pontifical Council for Social Communications - Oct 2009
You Will Be My Witnesses - by Archbishop Gomez
Here are links to all of the World Communication Day Messages from past popes. Interesting to peruse through them and see how many of the timeless issues addressed still apply to the present day:
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II
Pope Paul VI
Does anyone know of any other especially good letters, addresses, speeches, articles worth including here? Please share below so I can include them (I can link back to your website as the contributor if your suggestion gets included).
Now please excuse me as I’ve got a lot of new reading and re-reading to do.
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Matt, wasn’t there a decree on social communications in Vatican II?
inter mirifica
Matthew, one letter I like is “You Will Be My Witnesses” by the Archbishop of San Antonio
http://www.archdiosa.org/txtfiles/attachment_215.pdf in particular the Section “To us has been sent the message of salvation”
Thanks guys! Those are good. I will add them in! Keep it up!
Matt,
I’m a little late to the party here, but Dr. Christine Mugridge wrote a book on JPII’s Theology of Communication. There’s a brief explanation of it here on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYOKETNPEA4.
You might also want to include JPII’s Apostolic Exhortation called “Ecclesia in America”, especially noting Chapter 6 on the new evangelization, and the use of the media highlighted in par. 72. Find that here: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_22011999_ecclesia-in-america_en.html
A good comprehensive list of links to Vatican and USCCB docs regarding social communication: http://www.usccb.org/comm/churchdocs.shtml
John Paul II laid out the mission of the Church to the new media culture in a great 2005 letter, not long before he died:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20050124_il-rapido-sviluppo_en.html
This provides a great overall vision for the Catholic mission to and through media technology.
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